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So questions today on mortal and venial sins connected to our recent show on Romans 132,

whether or not it calls for the killing of homosexuals and then a little reaction to Dr.

Jumbo and borrows conversation where he was quoting a nominally Christian philosopher.

All right, let's begin with Joe. He said I have a lot of disagreements with Mike Bindor's

mild opposition to the death penalty for homosexuals. But instead of listing them,

I pose this question, can issues etc. examine whether some sins are worse than others and what

those sins are? I think this is the foundational question. Thanks for listening. Thanks for the

email Joe. Well, I think we have. We did an interview some time back with Pastor Will Whedon

in the course of some other series where we ended up talking about two categories that

theologians used to describe. Really the state of faith with respect to individual sins and

that's the category of mortal sin and venial sin. It's a long established category. It's one that

while we can define a mortal sin as one that robs someone of faith and a venial sin as a sin that

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