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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 11, 2022 1:47:02 GMT
"More souls go to hell because of the sins of the flesh than for any other reason" --- Our Lady of Fatima
Nothing "gnostic" about that. Sins of the flesh are not necessarily the worst sins (though sodomy is one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance, and when a woman falls pregnant out of wedlock, a child has been conceived improvidently outside of the God-ordained family structure, which can do a lifetime of damage, pretty bad if you ask me), but sins of the flesh are the mortal sins that give the most problems to the most people. Raw human nature is in effect having to be "harnessed" and disciplined unto a godly end against which nature militates.
Put another way, if there were no moral teaching against the use of sex outside of a valid marital relationship open to life, people would do pretty much anything they felt like doing --- and that's precisely what we see in the larger society. Contraception is the "pet sin" of the modern world, basically illicit mutual gratification, and people don't want to be told they mustn't do it, because that would require a level of self-restraint and sacrifice that they don't want to accept, least of all if they see everyone else using it and not giving it a second thought, in short, that bright and shiny new thing that makes life easy and that they want to use too. It's no more complicated than that.
Every completed, deliberate, willful use of the sexual faculty outside of the moral law is a mortal sin in the objective order. There is nothing "gnostic" about that either.
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