Posted on 11/01/2014 9:16:28 AM PDT by Salvation
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SINS CRYING TO HEAVEN
The four sins traditionally said to cry to heaven for vengeance, namely: 1. willful murder (Genesis 4:10); 2. sodomy or homosexuality (Genesis 18:20); 3. oppression of the poor (Exodus 2:23); and 4. defrauding laborers of their wages (James 5:4).
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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Thank you. We were just discussing this the other day. I’ll have to memorize them.
I more or less knew the first two. But was unaware of the last two and how series they were.
It’s easy to see why liberals take this cause (#3) up with such energy.
They might, in some cases, identify the right problem; but they designate the wrong cure. Turning the poor into tyrants is no better than positioning them to be tyrannized.
The definition of sodomy needn’t include ‘or homosexuality’. Sodomy is any act with one’s sexual organs that is not normal intercourse between a man and a woman. And yes, oral sex of any kind is sodomy.
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