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This is an open thread to discuss The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven.

I had never heard these categorized in quite this same way as well as the Scripture references.

1 posted on 07/23/2010 8:02:34 AM PDT by Salvation
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Lists Every Catholic Should be Familiar With: The 4 Sins that Cry Out to Heaven

2 posted on 07/23/2010 8:04:47 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Defrauding laborers of their wages

This sin is often overlooked

IMHO, this sin is something that regular Catholics and Bishops are encouraging on a wide scale by supporting illegal immigration.

In my area Mexican laborers are being exploited by landscaping companies, cleaning companies, construction companies, etc. Many of these companies do not pay overtime rates because they can get away with it because they know the illegal is not going to complain to authorities about it.

This is an enormous sin.

5 posted on 07/23/2010 8:14:22 AM PDT by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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Oppression of the poor—

1. The situation in Bell, CA, where the city administrator and other officials had their own little fiefdom and made hundreds of thousands per year while the median income in their city is very low.

I should link to the thread that describes the whole scam, but I don’t know how.

2. I used to practice bankruptcy law. It was sad for all concerned in the normal cases, where mistakes were made or disaster occurred and the money was insufficient to pay everyone. But it was far worse when people lost their money due to a scam, because a scam entails such callous contempt or disregard for the humanity of the person being conned. Abuse of power and abuse of trust cuts very deep and ruins lives, breaks hearts and disturbs minds.

BTW, in the cases I saw, the scammer was sometimes the debtor, and sometimes someone who scammed the debtor. Different scenarios would play out.


10 posted on 07/23/2010 8:39:51 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Defrauding laborers of their wages.

I'd say "income tax" falls into that category.

12 posted on 07/23/2010 8:54:19 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Defrauding laborers of their wages

Every time a union achieves a wage rate that is higher than what the free market would pay, it results in a tendency for the market to decrease the average amount of wages to those not in the union.

14 posted on 07/23/2010 9:35:42 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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Finally, a list that does not point a guilty finger at me. :)


17 posted on 07/23/2010 6:20:18 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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Placemark.


19 posted on 07/23/2010 7:22:14 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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How do they get this category ? What is their source ???

Scripture notes if you break one commandment you have broken them all...

I have never heard this group category before


25 posted on 07/25/2010 4:46:37 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me)
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What surprises me; (maybe I’m not thinking this through sufficiently) is that abuse of children isn’t on the list. Jesus seemed particularly concerned with the welfare of children.
Pardon me if this is a dead discussion; just a thought.


29 posted on 07/31/2010 10:18:34 AM PDT by glide625
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