Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: conan@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (David Cruz-Uribe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Mortal Sins?? Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 09:26:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Math Dept., UC Berkeley Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jhpb@lancia.garage.att.com writes: >Oversleeping, of course, excuses, as long as it's not through your own >fault. Where there's no will, there's no sin. > >But laziness I can't see as an excuse. I don't see how you can separate >it from a conscious decision to skip, in a matter that the Church >regards as a serious obligation. I don't want to get into theological hairsplitting--looking at the trees its too easy to lose sight of the forest. However, I was using "laziness" loosely to indicate that the person skipping mass (me, for example) has not given serious consideration to the nature of the act. In that case, the sin would not be as grave as if I said: "I'm not going to Church; the Pope can stuff it." This later example is what I meant by a rejection of Church teaching. Since the terminology is not crucial, we can call it disobedience. Yours In Christ, David Cruz-Uribe, SFO