Is it a sin to hate winter?

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In reqards the word “hate”, to quote from The Princess Bride.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Most of us do not really mean hate, as in a strong violent negative emotion, but rather dislike, don’t want to deal with, could do without, etc.
 
Some posters might be missing the point of the OP about this thread.

There may indeed be a scrupulosity problem at CAF…
 
houston1 said:
We all have evil inclinations because of original sin. It is very good to be wary of them. The fact that you raise the question about the sinfulness of your dislike is a good indicator that you are wary.
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:confused:Evil inclinations scrupolously contained?:confused:
 
Well in the case of scrupulosity, the wariness (wariness meaning being aware of possible sinfulness, self-examining, etc?) can become very much exaggerated and not helpful anymore, on the contrary.
 
TimothyH said:
The question posed in this thread ranks right up there with my other favorite CAF questions…

Is it a sin to like the South?
Is a Catholic allowed to admire non-Catholic scientists?
Is a Catholic allowed to own books written by Protestants?
Is it okay to name your baby Judas?
Does God Sit on Mary?

I’m adding “Is it a sin to hate winter?” to the list. 😃

-Tim-
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Please add this one as well:

Is listening to Christmas music during Lent a sin? 🙂
 
A scrupulous person can make a moral situation out of almost everything.
All these things do have this small potential for moralimplications… but going through life asking oneself moral questions about all those simple little things… just becomes a very heavy weight to bear.
 
robertmidwest said:
Keeping in the spirit of the season and the many, many, many, many scrupulous questions asked here…

Is it a sin to hate winter?
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I know what you are going thru, I too have been having hateful feelings for this ridiculous weather, its one thing to expect cold in winter time, but Im sorry, when it is in the negative zero day after day, add in horrible wind chills, that is something else entirely imo.

We had a guy come into a store yesterday, he said, ‘I wish there was a way to make an air mass suffer’…he was referring to this absolutely crazy arctic air mass sinking deep down into the US.

Then last week, a reporter was interviewing a homeless couple, asking them what its like to live outside when its in single digits and lower for days on end, at the end of the interview, the man told everyone to remember who is responsible for this weather and the suffering that goes along with it, his wife, or GF shook her head in agreement.
 
mikekle said:
I know what you are going thru, I too have been having hateful feelings for this ridiculous weather, its one thing to expect cold in winter time, but Im sorry, when it is in the negative zero day after day, add in horrible wind chills, that is something else entirely imo.

We had a guy come into a store yesterday, he said, ‘I wish there was a way to make an air mass suffer’…he was referring to this absolutely crazy arctic air mass sinking deep down into the US.

Then last week, a reporter was interviewing a homeless couple, asking them what its like to live outside when its in single digits and lower for days on end, at the end of the interview, the man told everyone to remember who is responsible for this weather and the suffering that goes along with it, his wife, or GF shook her head in agreement.
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Who might that be?
 
I should hope not. The beauty of nature should be inspiring. Some people are inspired by the snow and ice, others thunder and lighting, or spring flowers, autumn leaves etc. personally I love snow but ice I hate…except in my drinks! 😉
 
Della said:
We’re expecting 3" to 6" of snow Tuesday here in MN. :extrahappy: As you can tell from the smilie, we’re happy about it and praying it won’g misss us again like it has all winter. ***All we’ve had is piddling little snow falls that didn’t amount to much of anything. My dh took out the snowblower once all season, so far. We need the snow because we’ll have a drought this spring without it. *** We’re way down on accumulating moisture in the ground. And many of our businesses here rely on snowy winters, especially winter sports. We’re envious of the NW East Coast, crying, “They got OUR snow!” Sure, winter can drag on and having to bundle up and warm up the car and plow snow ain’t fun, but we really wouldn’t have it any other way when all is said and done. 😃
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I’m quite sure Boston would part with some of the 105.7 inches that have fallen there so far! 😉

Peace, Mark
 
Mark121359 said:
I’m quite sure Boston would part with some of the 105.7 inches that have fallen there so far! 😉

Peace, Mark
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That’s what we kept saying all winter! 😛 We got about 3" here but it’ll soon be gone. We’re expecting above freezing temps over the next few days. It looks like spring is on the way. 😃
 
Sixty degree temps on the way next week! Woo Hoo!! I will be soon out ot the risk of grave sin!
 
mikekle said:
The homeless couple was referring to God, who else could control the weather? (not Al Gore lol)
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I don’t agree. I think they were taking the popular global warming point of view. As in, humans are to blame, because we drive cars and burn coal and raise cattle.
 
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