Go To Hell You Evil Doer

[Ahimsa]

I didn’t make a joke about Baptists, as far as I can tell. I love 'em.

Well, I sort of love them.

Some of them.

I’m sorry. I should have explained my regional dialectical terminology.

“Ain’t no joke” means “are insanely intense!” or “are not to be taken lightly” or “must not be trifled with!”

 

[cpayne]

I’m sorry. I should have explained my regional dialectical terminology.

“Ain’t no joke” means “are insanely intense!” or “are not to be taken lightly” or “must not be trifled with!”

Oh. :doh2: I guess that was kind of obvious, now that I look back at your post. I was a little slow on the uptake, but I’m okay now.

 

[Lady_Cygnus]

I have problem accepting a Church teaching, and I’m trying to gain some insight. First of all, I’m a new, but faithful Catholic. I’m even discerning the priesthood/religious life, and plan on doing two-years of missionary work with the Capuchin Franciscans in Papua New Guinea.

My understanding is that eating meat on a Friday during Lent is a mortal sin. I have a very difficult time accepting this. I can’t see how the Lord of compassion and mercy would fling someone into an eternal lake of fire for eating meat on a Friday during Lent. It seems totally ridiculous and unreasonable to me.

Let me also say that I think the practice of not eating meat on Friday is a great spiritual practice, just not a grave matter. I personally try to abstain from meat and fast every Friday; I take it seriously, but it’s born out of love, not some grave obligation.

I am having a terribly difficult time accepting that God would view eating meat on a Friday during Lent a grave matter. At worst, I see it as a venial sin, and the worst it would do to a soul after death is extend their stay in purgatory.

This is only partly an issue of the intellect for me. It’s primarily a “gut” issue. Please help me out.

Adam and Eve were told to do a very small thing - don’t eat the apples off of this one tree. Was it fair for God to throw them out of Eden for eating an apple? Yes, because they chose to be disobedient. The sin isn’t in the eating of the apple versus the orange, but in the choosing to go against the Law God has put into place.

 

[rwoehmke]

I’m just saying that you don’t put your mortal soul in jeopardy by snarfing a hot dog before you remember it’s Friday.

Snarfing a hot dog BEFORE you remember it’s Friday is no kind of sin. Sin requires knowledge and intention. Where is the intention here? Speaking of snarfing a hot dog. It’s Monday and lunchtime. Desire is building.

 

[Dan_Grelinger]

Snarfing a hot dog BEFORE you remember it’s Friday is no kind of sin. Sin requires knowledge and intention. Where is the intention here? Speaking of snarfing a hot dog. It’s Monday and lunchtime. Desire is building.

Certainly not mortal sin, but there may be a sin of omission.

We are asked to care enough to pay attention to this requirement on Fridays during Lent. I have made this mistake (did it once at lunch this past Lent, and did not remember until it was almost dinnertime). If I had cared enough to be thinking about it during the day, it would not have happened. I was guilty of treating a Friday during Lent as any other day, rather than keeping my mind on an important thing. I believe that this is a sin of omission, but since it is not done with intent, can’t be a mortal sin.

Dan