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To: Kaslin

Despair is a great sin. Despair and suicide in effect are saying - there are human problems or concerns which are greater than God, and that are beyond his plans for us. How can that not be evil?


7 posted on 01/02/2013 9:25:01 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88
Despair is a great sin. Despair and suicide in effect are saying - there are human problems or concerns which are greater than God, and that are beyond his plans for us. How can that not be evil?

Are you saying that those who feel despair are evil?

22 posted on 01/02/2013 10:33:19 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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“Despair is a great sin”

I wouldn’t say that, as it’s not really a choice. Your actions leave you more or less likely to possess it, and once you have it the only way out, really, is deliberative. Coincidentally I am reading Kierkegaard’s “The Sickness Unto Death,” which is about despair and describes it as a sickness of the soul.


36 posted on 01/02/2013 11:44:00 AM PST by Tublecane
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