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I accept that as an answer, thank you!
Would this be a mortal sin or venial sin similar to how masturbation and contraception are mortal sins?going to a concert where the music was blasting at 100 dB or more
Interesting question. Suffice it to say that if St. Paul had ever seen or heard of an entertainment event where the blasphemy and impurity were so loud that it was enough to permanently harm your hearing, he would have condemned it as entirely unfitting for Christians.Would this be a mortal sin or venial sin similar to how masturbation and contraception are mortal sins?
I’m told I am very picky about my analogies, but I’d say the OP’s example is not a good example to illustrate what is meant by a contradiction of the ultimate purpose of a faculty of the body. It was a fair try at attempting to understand the concept, but (IMO) it misses the point.I am wondering why this question would even arise. I cannot see any relationship whatsoever.
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Again, to be as emphatic as I can possibly be, I am totally on point with the Church’s teaching. Some would blast me on this, but I think that contraception is the “besetting sin” of a massive number of married couples in our modern world, and — here comes the blast! — it has the potential of being the sin that, given sufficient reflection and full consent of the will, could separate many, many people from the grace of Almighty God. It is objectively grave matter and a sin of the flesh, and it is not a sin that of its nature can be committed in a fit of passion, confusion, or intemperance. Not to be crude, but it takes full willful consent and deliberation to go to the doctor for a prescription, or to drive down to the drugstore — it’s not the sort of thing you do in a confused, blithering fog of impaired will and consent.To HomeschoolDad:
With all due respect, the Church advises abstinence unless we are open to life.
To me, this question is a bit like asking if the Church would ever advise cannibals to fully cook the flesh of their victims before consuming them so as to avoid disease.
Don’t get those mixed up, goout.JJO:
Putting earmuffs on is like wearing underwear.Hi guys,
The Catechism says this
“The deliberate use of the sexual faculty outside normal conjugal relations essentially contradicts the ultimate purpose of the sexual faculty” which is why masturbation, contraception etc are wrong.
But what if I deliberately use my hearing faculties (my ears) for reasons outside normal hearing purposes such as wearing fluffy earmuffs as a fashionable thing to wear. This contradicts and frustrates the ultimate purpose of my ears so is blocking your ears also sinful?
Please help me to resolve this systematically and logically.
By the way, I completely agree with the Church’s teaching on sexual morality, but I fear She hasn’t made her arguments very strong.
JJO
That’s very trueSt. Paul was also not one to split hairs and write off some kinds of sin as beneath concern, as some have a way of doing when they find that something is “only a venial” sin.
It wouldn’t be a change, it would be an evolution, a development of doctrine, and would vitiate nothing whatsoever about the core teaching. But I would defer to the magisterium, either way. I’m just throwing it out there. The last thing in the world I am, is a dissident from the Church’s teaching on contraception.I don’t think I’d change tha teaching.
Is there any better justification than the natural law do you think?
How about “having sex while actively eliminating the potential to conceive” instead?So would having sex when it is impossible to conceive