Posted: Oct 13, 2013 10:47 pm
archibald wrote:Bad as masturbation was seen to be, I wouldn't be surprised if it was even worse to people like him to use the word 'God' as a swear word. These guys were, ostensibly, putting 'don't offend god' at the apex of the naughty pyramid, because they reeely reeely believed this was the most worst thing one could do.
That's true. Aquinas elsewhere opined that blasphemy was the greatest of all sins, and worse than murder. He conceded that a blasphemy doesn't kill God, but "as the blasphemer intends to do harm to God's honor, absolutely speaking, he sins more grievously that the murderer."