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To: Mrs. Don-o

Shedding of Innocent Blood(Gen 4:10)
The Sin of Sodom (Gen 18:20-21, Ezekiel 16:48-51)
Oppression of the Poor (Ex 2:23-25)
Defrauding Workers of a Just Wage (James 5:4.

Thanks for proving my point. Otherwise, why are the third and fourth sins listed above not inclusive under the second one?

Because Sodom’s unique sin that cries out to Heaven was homo sex.


47 posted on 01/30/2016 9:09:39 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
Please note again the Ezechiel verse, which was included under the "Sin of Sodom" which you quoted:

(Ezekiel 16:49-50)
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."

The point is that the sins (plural) of Sodom, which were abominations, included homosexual vice, pride, avarice, gluttony, covetousness, other sexual sins, oppression of workers, neglect of the poor.

These things so commonly go together. The Prophets of Israel and the Doctors of the Church listed sexual and economic sins together. Medieval homilists, in their Lenten sermons, used to group these three: Usury, Luxury, Sodomy.

50 posted on 01/30/2016 10:02:16 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Justice and judgment are the foundation of His throne." - Psalm 89:15)
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