Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Sigh, straw man fallacy, that claim isn't remotely what he said, at this point I shan't even feign surprise.

And yet it remains what he believes.

I'm glad to see this annoys you people, maybe once you get tired enough of your own medicine you can actually start to behave like adults.

I doubt it, given the casual racism and a intellectual vapidity on display here by key members of the community, but fuck it we ball.

It manifestly is not what he believes.

The Church has very specific standards for what constitutes a mortal sin, and the simple taking of a human life does not meet those standards (murder almost always does, but that's a different kettle of fish of another colour).

Let me try a hypothetical scenario to see if I can help you understand:

If someone were to stalk you, catch you unawares, beat you to death with an iron bar, chop you into manageable bits with an axe, and bury the bits in a limed pit, that would be murder and a mortal sin.

One the other hand, if someone, through no fault of their own, were to strike and kill you with their car, that would be the taking of a human life but not a mortal sin (possibly not even a venial one).

The notion that not all acts with a similar outcome are sinful and that not all sins are equally grave is one of the (very) few less than reprehensible things about the Catholic church.

Boru