Apparently *pledges*/vows are made to be broken. As an example, I give you the divorce rate in America and every *doctor* who performs an abortion.
Perhaps...
But the Vow / Pledge is never broken
without breaking the person doing it
Witness that this Priest sees nothing wrong
with his behavior, and I would dare to say
his future life will be a downhill spiral
As he has blinded himself to his Sin
-— without repentance -—
It is not for naught that it is taught that
The Wages of Sin is Death
His inevitable moral decline will be but a
microcosm of what happens to each of us
when we disobey God's Laws.
Or in his case
A self imposed Personal Law
This is what an Oath is