(January 1, 2017 at 5:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A common misunderstanding here, is that the sins you listed are "serious sins." For a serious sin to become a mortal sin, it must be done with full knowledge and consent of the will, without remorse, and with the deliberate intention of separating yourself from God. It is a persons level of culpability that makes a serious sin mortal, not just the act of it. Since we cannot know the minds/ hearts of other ppl, it is impossible to say whether a serious sin they committed is mortal or not because we do not know their level of culpability, and thus we do not know whether they are damning themselves to hell or not. That is why the Church does not claim to know that any particular person is in hell... even hitler.
This is a common response but it's mostly just semantics. For the purposes of brevity I condensed the scenario to refer to actual mortal sin rather than waste a paragraph explaining the distinction between actual committed mortal sin and the grave matter that forms part of that sin. I'm well aware of the fact that there are three things necessary for mortal sin: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent. The Church objectively considers these acts I listed a grave matter which if committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent means one has sinned mortally and is going to Hell unless they repent appropriately before death. If you do any of these sins with full knowledge and deliberate consent you have to confess them. Yes, your culpability is ultimately judged by God, but you have a conscience also, and if your conscience is formed according to the Church's teaching then you are obligated to bring these sins to the priest in confession if you believe you have committed mortal sin in order to obtain forgiveness under normal circumstances.
So the substance of my point remains: these ridiculously inconsequential acts are considered a grave matter by the Catholic Church, and if committed with full knowledge of the act's sinfulness and gravity, and choosing of your own volition to commit it, you are in effect choosing eternal damnation. I consider this a morally repugnant and absurd proposition and no good, loving, merciful, or just God would ever create or facilitate such a reprehensible system of "justice".
