| Up-dated "Sin" List |
Tue, 11 March 2008 03:27  |
 Augsburg Boy
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This poor little thread hasn't seen any action since last year, but the latest updated "Sin" list, makes me wonder, from the "Apostolic Penitentiary" sounds like a prison in Mississippi, but anyways, this quote from an aol article:
"He (being the dir of the Apostolic Penitentiary, what's dat, an Ecclesiastical warden? )cited "violations of the basic rights of human nature" through genetic manipulation, drugs that "weaken the mind and cloud intelligence," and the imbalance between the rich and the poor."
Now, I am a firm believer through my work as an addictions counselor and Psych S.W., that drug use is a medical condition, NOT a willful act.
But reading the above, it seems the drugs are the sinner, do the drugs get sent to Hell? Surely ( don't call me Shirley ) a person addicted to drugs is not committing willful sinnery ( how's that for a word?  ). Any ideas?
Randy
"The Lord so loved the world that He did not send a committee."
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| Re: Up-dated "Sin" List |
Tue, 11 March 2008 23:46  |
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Perhaps, Randy, it's the initial taking of the drugs that is the choice of the drug-taker. Once the drugs effect their physiological changes in the brain (and yes, physical changes do occur, check out MRIs comparing the brains of drug addicted people vs. that of non-drug addicted people; the difference is like night and day), then at that point, it becomes a medical condition.
Just a thought from this sleep-starved creature (maybe I'm enjoying spring break a little too much ... muted, of course, by the tragedy that unfolded at UNC last week ...)
Regards,
Lyn F.
http://musical-chemist.blogspot.com/
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| Re: Up-dated "Sin" List |
Mon, 11 August 2008 05:28 |
Karl
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It used to be for a very long time that moral theologians tended to find habitual sin *worse* than non-habitual sin, but the tendency today has been to focus more on the initial sin and the corruption of full consent in habits. You will find some range of opinion and confessional practice in this regard.
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