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Show 187: THE CONSEQUENCES OF VENIAL SIN · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: The a B. Hey, welcome to Dave's show today. Probably
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a very short show. Actually, we're just going to wrap
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up the topic we've been discussing. I guess now for
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what five days proposed Arrago's exhaustive Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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But first let's turn to radio replies, where the questioner, well,
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I guess I would say, states, definitely isn't a question.
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But he says, if one has to be a Catholic
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to get to heaven, I shall be glad to stay outside.
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And they answered that as an absurd, absurd statement, for
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there is no eternal happiness outside of heaven. But I
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understand what you mean. You believe that the Catholic Church
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to be wrong, and you will not do what you
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believe to be evil that good may come. It's a
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very charitable take on that. I have actually spoken with
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several anti Catholics who will literally say, if the only
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way to go to heaven is to be Catholic, I'd
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rather go to hell. And they mean it. They hate
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the church that was founded by Jesus Christ. They hate
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Christ and his church that much, while professing to love
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him mainly, they when it comes to down they hate Catholics,
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forget the Church. They hate you and me so much
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they don't want to spend attornity with us. And I'm
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not kidding. That's not an uncommon sentiment among anti Catholic
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so called Christian Protestants. They will literally say, if the
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Catholic Church is right, I want to go to Hell.
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I don't want to have anything to do with Jesus,
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nothing to do with God the Father, or the Holy Spirit.
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They would rather spend eternity in hell than with Catholics.
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And it's a matter of pride. I mean, that's actually
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what Satan said. He said he would rather rule than
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in hell than serve in heaven. They literally take in
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the Satanic position of saying, if the Catholic Church is right,
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they would choose Hell over God and what he has instituted.
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They would literally choose to be spenitrinity with demons and
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the damned and with Catholics. I'm telling you, I don't
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know how much certain people think things through, but there's
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a lot of really messed up stuff on the Protestant
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side of the coin, a lot of really anti well,
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what we call Antichrist teachings and sentiment. People who literally
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hate their fellow Christians so much that if they have
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to accept their denomination is true, they would rather go
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to hell. That's man, That one's beyond me. I'm not
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that is beyond me. I cannot understand. I mean, let's
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say a Muslim I was debated with a Muslim, and
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a Muslim said, what if I'm right and the only
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way to go to heaven is to be a Muslim,
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I'd say, well, then I would hope, you know, that
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God would convince me of that before I die, or
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you know, given our doctor of purgatory, God would enlighten
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me of that, because my number one goal is to
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serve God now. And of course I don't believe that true.
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I believe the Catholic Church be the one true religion
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on earth and the one true Christian Church. But if
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someone positive me that question, I would say, well, if
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that is true, I would hope that I give a
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chance to find it out before it's too late. And then,
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of course I would be compelled to become Muslim. If
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God himself said this is the true religion to worship God,
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I would have to follow what he said. What many
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Protestants say, and actually, you know, many Muslims who hate
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the Catholic Church will say the same thing. They would
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choose hell over being Catholic rather than admit to the
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truth of the Catholic Church. And that that's astounding to me,
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that's mind boggling. I can't even again understand that. Well,
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it is actually truly sinful. It's it's it's pride. It's
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a sin of arrogance and pride and humorous and it's
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actually a mortal sin. And I don't think they even
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realize that. They just they're so convinced Catholics are wrong,
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and they're so convinced that their denomination is right that they're,
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you know, willing to stand on it to the very
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end and even defy God himself. And you know, I
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don't know how you can be Christian and be willing
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to defy God himself, but you know whatever, it's far
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more common than not. Actually, when I was at a
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certain Southern Baptist university, that was basically the prevailing attitude.
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And will you can't You cannot debate with a person
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like that. You cannot convince a person, you cannot have
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a productive argument if they are literally willing to go
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to Hell rather than to believe that the Catholic Church
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is right in any way, in any way, they would
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not at the university, at the Baptised University, they would
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not even admit the Catholics or Christian Let that sink
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in two thousand years of the Catholic Church. All Christians
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were Catholic up until about five hundred years ago, not
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even really that long. To this day the majority of
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Christians are Catholic. Protestantism is this new Man made and
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they swear to it, to the point that they would
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reject the Catholic Church even if they knew that it
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was God's will that they be part of that church.
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I can't, I can't get it. I honestly can't anyway,
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he says. But God does not want you to do that,
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nor do I. As long as you believe the Catholic
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Church to be wrong, you are obliged not to join it,
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in other words, showing to violate your conscience. Yet if
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ever God gives you the grace to perceive the truth,
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you will be obliged to join it, no matter what
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the cost in removing your and renouncing your previous statement
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and attachments. If and the person says, if a Catholic
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leaves his church, and outside that church leaves a good lives,
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a good and devout life. Can he be saved? And
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they answer, yess, and they answer, and they answer, You
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give an impossible case. To live a devout life is
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to live a life devote to God. Now, no Catholic
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can have a really sufficient reason to doubt the truth
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of his church. If doubts do come, he owes it
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to God to make sure of his position before he acts.
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An inquiry will show that such doubts will be unfounded.
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If he leaves without such inquiry, he is to blame
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for throwing away the best of God's gifts. If he
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inquires sincerely, he stays. Person says, but what if he
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be fully convinced that the Catholic Church is wrong, even
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though his conscience be erroneous? Would you blame him for
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leaving rather than violate his conscience by remaining? And they answer,
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I would blame him for allowing his conscience to become
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so convinced by insufficient reason, and for not studying the
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grounds which absolutely guarantee the Catholic Church as the only
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completely Christian church. His first difficulty should have led him
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to seek advice from competent guides. And the person asks,
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so if a Catholic becomes a Protestant, he has no hope,
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And they answer, whilst there is life, there is always hope.
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Where there's life, there is hope. Wonderful saying, such a
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man may return to the Catholic Church, or at least
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die sincerely repenting of having ever left it. And he asks,
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are Protestants free to lead the Protestant Church? That Catholics
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not free to lead the Catholic Church? And the answer
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one may always renounce here for truth, but one that
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is free to forsake the truth, but no one. One
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may always renounce error for truth, but no one is
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free to forsake the truth for error. And the man says,
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Christ died for all. He did not say that we
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must all be Catholics. And they answer, since Christ died
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for all, it follows that he wants all to belong
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to the one church he established and endowed with his authority.
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Person says, many clever men have examined Roman claims and
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have rejected them. They do not think it necessary to
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join the Catholic Church. And they answer equally clever men
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or convinced of its necessity. After all, there are clever
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men who reject Christianity itself, but that does not make
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the truth of Christianity uncertain. We cannot argue from degrees
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of intelligence in those who accept or reject the Catholic claim.
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Such differences of human thought prove nothing except that men differ.
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The real question is not affected. We must study carefully
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the value of the foundation upon which their claims rest.
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And we always stop here. No, you know, I'll leave
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this next time. We got like three more questions and
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answers in this chapter, and I'm just going to go
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on to venial sin. Now. Venial sin is very interesting.
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As you know, Protestants reject that there is any difference
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between mortal and venial sin, even though the Bible says
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quite clearly there is. They say all sins equal before God.
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No it's not. It actually says in the Bible some
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sends cry out and like sins against the Holy Spirit
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are unforgivable. You know, the very Bible that they hold
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up as the sole authority refutes their very doctrine. But
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you know, they really don't understand venial sin. They'll say
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either that everybody saved by grace and it doesn't matter
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what you do. That was That was Martin Luther's doctrine.
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He encouraged his followers to commit adultery and murder, yeah,
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to steal, to lie. He said, it didn't matter a bit,
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and he in fact encouraged them to do so. Or
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they'll say, well, sends really serious and grave, and Catholics
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are wrong in saying some sins aren't as well. You know,
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you can't really have it both ways, but they do.
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So today we'll get into venial sin. It's short. It
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will wrap it up for probably this week because I
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got a lot going on. Still having some major issues
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with the hurricane damage. Seems that, you know, with the
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power out and it cold and everything. I got busted pipes,
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a cracked toilet, busted hot water heater, and owner's insurance
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denied the claim and has dropped me. I no longer
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have homeowners insurance. Isn't that great? You pay into it
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for like ten twenty years and then they just come
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up and say, you know, hurricanes cause flooding and it's
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an act of God and we don't cover it all.
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And besides, we didn't approve of your heating system in
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the first place. And we would have dropped you before.
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Now if we have, Oh that's nice, and they say
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so apply to FEMA, and FEMAS have hasn't replied in
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a three weeks now, they're just screwing around doing nothing.
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They did send me, you know, seven hundred and fifty bucks.
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That's great, but I've got like twenty to forty thousand
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dollars worth of damage, and so FEMOS recommends you fill
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out an SBA loan of application small business loan. I mean,
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I don't even understand how it's supposed to work, but
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it's supposed to be for home restoration. Filled it out
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and they denied it because essentially I'm self employed. And yeah,
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so I mean they didn't even check my credit or
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you know, money in the bank or anything. It's just
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they just outright denied me. So yeah, it's not exactly
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fun right now. But it'll be all right. I know
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it'll be all right. But yeah, if you would say
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a prayer for people in western North Carolina and throughout
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you know, the Appalachian South who are still in Florida,
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who are still dealing with the effects of these hurricanes,
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still a lot of people without power, still hearing just horrible,
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horrible stories of entire families killed in mudslides, and I'm
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just really really awful, uh stuff, And you know, I
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don't get it. Biden and all them say FEMA is
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doing a wonderful job. I can't see that they're doing
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jack squat and they certainly are not helping me, at
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least not yet. Every day I log in to see
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if they've even processed my application and other than saying
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I could go stay in a motel room for a
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few days, which would be cool, but they're booked up
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within one hundred miles from here in any direction. I mean, yeah,
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that's great. I mean a lot of people have taken
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advantage of that, and you know that's great. They got
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a warm place to sleep, but they got electricity and
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you know, maybe even going to take out pizza or something.
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Right there is all that lodging's taken, I mean helping
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me and unless I want to travel maybe a few
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hours away, and I may have to do that at
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some point just to get some hot water or something.
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But yeah, I mean, they approved my lodging, and they
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approved that seven hundred and fifty dollars deposit in my
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bank account, which is awesome. I'm glad to have a
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seven hundred and fifty bucks. I mean, you know, it's
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good to have some help with the groceries and everything.
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But I mean, I got tens of thousands of dollars
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worth of damage, and unless something comes through. I mean,
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first of all, every construction crew, every home renovation company,
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every builder is already booked up well in the next year.
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I'm not gonna get any help in fixing what needs
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to be fixed for months, maybe even a year. I'm
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going to have to probably do all this myself. And
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unless FEMA comes through in a way they haven't so far,
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it's going to be out of pocket. And you know,
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I'm sure God will provide. But I mean, you're looking
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at twenty forty thousand dollars worth of damage and you're thinking,
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I've been paying in for years on home insurance, no help,
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I pay my taxes, no help. Now I've got to
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pay this out of my pocket? What the hell? I mean, literally,
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how is this? I hate to put in these terms
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because you know, I mean, my best friend is in Odessa, Ukraine,
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and I mean I know she's been going through bombing
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and such that I couldn't even imagine, but we spent
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We spent billions of dollars to Ukraine. Billions. I mean
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like literally almost like a million dollars per person. I
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think last figure I saw was over one hundred thousand.
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I mean, it's crazy the amount of money we sent
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to Ukraine. Here I am a tax paying, voting citizens
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of the United States, and it's like, here's seven hundred
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and fifty bucks. Be grateful and act like everything's okay.
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And don't you dare or criticize federal agencies on the
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internet or you know, you may even be arrested. I
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a's still a good five hundred people without power in
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my county. My mine's been in and out. A lot
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just got restored again, but now I have no hot
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water because hot water here is broken. And I just
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I don't our priorities are. You know, you got to
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take care of your own citizens first. It's wonderful to
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help out other people. I mean, the Pope's always saying
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we need to like give all our money to poor
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countries and let everybody in from you know, no, we
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actually do have to help ourselves first. I mean that
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is what the Bible teachers. You care for your own family,
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and then you take care of others because your responsibilities
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to your own family first. And Joe Biden's not doing
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jack squat for us, Kamala Harris isn't doing jack squat
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for US, Roy Cooper, our government's not doing Our governor's
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not doing jack squat for us. The only person who
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has has been Elon musk and in cooperation with President Trump.
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But yeah, I mean it's not I'm okay. I keep
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saying to people. They're like, are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay, Okay.
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I've got a roof over my head, and i can
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put a fire in the fireplace, and I've got access
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to clean water, and I'm going to survive, god willing.
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I mean, I don't see anything that's gonna prevent me
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from surviving. I can put food on the table. I
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can actually get out and drive to the grocery store.
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Now we couldn't do that for a couple of weeks,
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you know, But this is I don't see anybody trying
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to make us whole as they say, you know. I mean,
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if a home inspector would come in right now, he
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would probably say, well, he'd probably give me a list
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of things I would have to do to make the
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house habitable as he say, you know, in good condition,
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heat and hot water and everything that you would need.
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And there's nobody doing that. I mean, I'm glad just
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to have four walls still standing. A lot of houses
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were just washed other but there's no one coming in
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saying we're gonna make you whole. And honestly, if that
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isn't the case, what the hell are we paying for?
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Why are we paying? I mean, you pay Homewner's insurance
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because your mortgage company says you have to. I nobody
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ever talked to has said that when they had damaged
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to their house fire, water damage, a lightning strike, whatever,
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that they got all they needed from Homer's insurance. You
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know who does get all they need from home owner's insurance?
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The bank, you know, the ones that hold your mortgage.
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If your house is destroyed, you're pretty much on your own,
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but the bank gets paid. You'll get a little, a little,
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just enough to get by, maybe like seven hundred and
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fifty bucks in a lodging voucher, but the bank is
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going to get the full value of your property. You
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also pay mortgage insurance to make sure the bank gets
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full value of your property. I don't know what we're
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paying for with our taxes. Honestly, I guess I'm not
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supposed to say this, but I can't see a lot
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that FEMA or the National Guard has really done well
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in western North Carolina. I think really they cause more
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problems than good. If anything, they've been just a little help.
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I can go with that, a little help. But I mean,
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if somebody's not going to come in and make us
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all whole, as they say, what have we been paying for?
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And we pay a lot? We pay a lot in
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both state and federal taxes. North Carolina has some of
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the highest state taxes in the entire South. What's going
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on here? Well, anyway, let me get on to Father's
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sipiagu just say a prayer for the people that are
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still having effects from a hurricane. As I say, I'm okay,
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there are a lot of people that aren't. I don't.
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I'm not going to repeat the stories. If you've been online,
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if you've been on Twitter and Facebook, if you've watched
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the news, you've probably heard some horrible things and they're
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all true, and it's only like a fraction of the truth.
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Heartbreaking terrible things. But I'm just saying, you come in
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this country illegally and they give you, I remember, what
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was it, fourteen hundred dollars a month, that maybe like
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more like two thousand, A free cell phone, free lodging,
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free healthcare, free schooling, et cetera, et cetera, free legal representation.
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And here we are tax paying citizens and their great
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gift to us is like half the amount they would
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give one illegal an immigrant for one month. Something's really
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not right here, something's really not adding up. But anyway,
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so father Sparaga writes of the consequences of anal sin.
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Venial sin is a slight thing of itself in itself,
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but it deprives us of much that is good, just
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as hair if it gets into the pen, spoils the
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best handwriting. You probably have no idea what that means. Well,
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you gotta remember people used to write with fountain pens. Okay,
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I have a fountain pen. I like it. I don't
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use it a lot because my handwriting is not really
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good enough to justify it. But back then they had
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dip pins. This was a pen that didn't have an
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ink cartridge in it, but it would sort of an
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improvement from the old quill pen. It had a brass tip,
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and you would dip it in ink and then write.
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And if one little hair from your hair or your beard,
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or your dog or your cat, whatever got in there,
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it would ruin your handwriting. And you could be doing
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a long official legal document or something and it had
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to be just torn up and started over. So anyway,
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venal sin leads to mortal sin and eventualates the the
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loss of sanctifying grace. Venial sin makes mortal sin easy
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as a spot of decay, and an apple gradually spreads
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until the whole fruit is rotten. So a man who
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does not heed venal sin will soon fall into mortal sin.
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As sickness precedes deaths, so venial sin precedes mortal He
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who begins by neglecting trifling faults will end by committing
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grievous sins. Venial sin may be compared to the dust
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which settles on closed and if it be not brushed off,
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it will spoil them. In the end. It is the
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moth that frets away the garment of sanctifying grace. God
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permits those who make light of menial sin to fall
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into mortal sin as a chastisement to their negligence. Avoid
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small sins, says Saint John Christostom, for they will grow
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into great sins. He that is unjust, and that which
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is little is in unjust, and that which is greater.
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That's Luke twenty six ten. As one who wants to
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cleave a log of wood makes a small incision and
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then drives in the wedge, so the devil tempts us
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first to commit slight offenses, and gradually leads us to
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greater transgressions. Venial sin is all the more dangerous because
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it deprives us of many actual graces, without which we
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cannot overcome the assaults of temptation. A mirror which is
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covered with dust cannot reflect mnimage clearly, the mirror of
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the soul, its surface obscured by the dust. Venial sin
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is almost impervious to the rays of the sun of justice.
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A personage of distinction cannot be expected to approach a
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man who is frightfully disfigured by some cutaneous disease. Must
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lets embrace him, or even suffer him to kiss his hand.
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So God would not admit you to his friendship or
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delight you with his consolations. If your soul is to
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face by venal sin. Venal sin lessens our diligence in
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the pursuit of what is good. A trifling and disposition
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often incapacitates us and for the performance of duties of
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our calling. In like manner, venial sin weakens the will
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and indisposes it for good works. It diminishes the forces
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of charity, and makes a man lukewarm in the service
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of God. To him may be applied the words of
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holy Scripture. Because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot,
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I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth
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Revelations three sixteen. There are temporal penalties due to venial sin,
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and these will come down upon us, either on earth
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or after death. In purgatory, Zachary was struck dumb because
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he would not believe the message of the angel Luke
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one twenty. Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised
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Land because of his incredulity. Numbers twenty twelve. Annias and
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Phirah fell dead. Let's when we try the gain and Annias,
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since Sephirah fell dead at Saint Peter's feet in consequence
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of the deception they practice, those who at their death
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are in a state of venial sin will have to
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pass through the fires of purgatory in order to expiate
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them before gaining eight minutes to heaven. On this account,
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the Saints inflicted severe penalties upon themselves for the least sin.
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Venal sin must be a great evil, since God, who
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is merciful and gracious, who is a merciful and gracious father,
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punishes it with such rigor, namely by temporary exclusion from
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his kingdom and prolonged suffering and purgatory. And that actually
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wraps up our chapter on sin for the most part,
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except beginning next week we will start with vice, and
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vice grows out of sin, so we've got a ways
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to go, but we've gotten through the bulk of it. Y'all,
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have a good one, remember the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope,
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and don't worry, and I'll talk to you next time.