Thekla:
How could it not be? I mean, you left out a lot of the qualifiers, but the very notion of punishment for sin is connected to the idea of knowing and understanding.
I would argue many people know what they are doing is wrong or don’t care, but choose to do it nonetheless. It’s the “I’ll do what I want, I’ll do what I want” mantra. Full knowledge does not require knowledge of every mortal sin in the book (whereas the individual might know something is sinful, but did not know it was a grave matter). Nor does it require
accepting whether an act is sinful or not.
From paragraph 1859 of the CCC:
(Full knowledge) presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God’s law.
What the Catechism says about feigned ignorance is important. Often times people refuse to investigate something or to look at evidence concerning what God wants of them in an attempt to “protect themselves” from knowing, and thus being obligated to do, something they don’t want to do. In such cases, one is feigning ignorance rather than investigating the matter as one should. Only unintentional
ignorance diminishes one’s accountability for sin:
1860 Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man.
http://www.cin.org/users/James/questions/q126.htm
One poster appears to admit he knew of the sinful nature of voting for pro-abortion candidates, but seemed to laugh it off as not true. That is full knowledge. This may be confusing to many… you do not need to
accept the full knowledge, to fulfil the “full knowledge” of clause of mortal sins.
To take the “intentional ignorance” easy way out is to put yourself in opposition to Truth. Meaning, you do not want to seek Truth and thus seek God. I’ll tell you it is awful hard to live forever with God, if throughout your life and on your death bed, you are in opposition to Truth. It is not something I recommend.
An example of “unintentional ignorance” is someone who throughout their whole life was completely ignorant about the one-hour fast before communion. All the while, this person ate right before going to mass.
Thekla:
I know it makes some people crazy that in the end they don’t get to judge others; but they don’t.
You got me! That is what I am about. I want to be God so I can send everyone to hell. That is my goal in life.
