Backsliding Away

 Catholics don’t need to worry about backsliding. That is because they are always careening from one confession to the next, in immediate danger of hellfire—at any and all times—at least so I thought when I was a practicing Catholic. 

Thomas Aquinas, or Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1225–1274), defined mortal and venial sins in his work. It is known as: Summa Thelogica. I studied it at college. The reason I again bring it up, is that it is vitally important to Catholics, and yet, I have found little Scriptural basis for it whatsoever.

 Anyhow, if you die with a mortal sin on your soul, and it is unconfessed to a priest, you are going to hell. That’s about the long and short of what Aquinas had to say.

Most Catholics, I must here note, have a heavy burden to bear. They do not entertain the concept of backsliding. For them, it’s either heaven or hell. Maybe Purgatory is in there someplace. I’m not making fun; it is a real dilemma for the Catholic follower. There is so much guilt in Catholicism!

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