Whilst all sin should generally be taken seriously as a matter of principle, the magnitude of each sin can vary in degree according to case.
There are several ways to categorize or group sins and some sins are particularly worse than others. One such group is peccata clamantia, which is Latin, literally meaning “crying sins”.
There are four “sins that cry to heaven for vengeance”: 1. Willful murder 2. Sodomy 3. Oppression of the poor 4. Defrauding working men of their wages. Others cannot be excluded but these four are tradition taken from Scripture. Although it does not state them in the form of a numbered list, it is assumed that people can at least count to four.
In this article, I will include observations of the world today—these are merely my general observations and opinions. Of course, “nothing under the sun is new” (Ecclesiastes 1) but the degrees observed are nonetheless noteworthy.
1. Willful Murder
Willful murder means it is intentional (even calculated) and unjust.
As written in Genesis 4, after Cain had murdered his brother Abel, God said to Cain:
“What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth to me from the earth.”
Homicide rates in the US have decreased dramatically from the rates recorded during the 1960s to early-1990s.
However, there are other types of murder, the number of deaths being more difficult to trace:
Wars that are not only unjust in their execution—for example, wholesale slaughter of civilians—but totally unnecessary in the first place.
Attempted genocide using the plandemic measures including but not limited to “vaccines”.
The millions of abortions worldwide per year in recent decades. Worse than that is the promotion of the idea as if it is normal or even a necessary good.
2. Sodomy
According to the Douay Catechism (1649), sodomy is considered more broadly as a “carnal sin against nature, which is a voluntary shedding of the seed of nature, out of the due use of marriage, or lust with a different sex”.
This sin takes its name after the inhabitants of the city Sodom. The infamous episode regarding Sodom is written in Genesis 18–19. God “rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven” but not before warning Abraham and Lot. To the latter, God said:
“For we will destroy this place, because their cry is grown loud before the Lord, who hath sent us to destroy them.”
The general erosion (of the idea) of marital bond, family, sex and gender (identity). The effects have been more apparent since the 1960s.
The general decline in marriage rates and the general increase of divorce rates.
The general increase of cohabitation prior to marriage. Worse than that is the promotion and acceptance of the idea as if it is normal.
The immodesty in dress for both men and women and the glorification and acceptance of the current standards as the norm.
The widespread availability of porn and the acceptance of it as the norm.
Human trafficking networks.
3. Oppression of the Poor
According to the Douay Catechism (1649), this oppression “is a cruel, tyrannical, and unjust dealing with inferiors”.
From the scriptural passages below and using commonsense, it can be seen that the “poor” are not merely the financially poor. The “widow” and “orphan” indicate those groups as well as those who are, for whatever reason(s), helpless and vulnerable.
God said to Moses regarding the children of Israel as recorded in Exodus 3:
“I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works…”
Later, He gave the following instructions to His people as recorded in Exodus 22:
“You shall not hurt a widow or an orphan. If you hurt them they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry: And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
Isaiah 10 is presumably making an allusion to the above:
Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice: To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
Christ spoke against the Pharisees for their excessively harsh religious rules as recorded in Matthew 23:
“Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.”
It can be seen that particular attention is given to those in positions of authority who are meant to protect and defend the helpless and vulnerable.
Strategically placed elements within the church and civil hierarchies (including the so-called justice system) that organize, facilitate and promote immorality and criminal activities as well as maintain power for its own sake.
The means include poorly written laws designed to protect and promote immorality and criminality as well as “lawfare”.
Even if the laws do not protect and promote criminality, many are nonetheless pointless and are simply a burden on society. The hours and resources spent on writing and administrating them could have been applied to something useful.
The above is filtered down to all lower levels of governance of all types, including local councils and private entities.
Taxation.
Human trafficking.
Attempted genocide including but not limited to the plandemic.
4. Defrauding Working Men of Their Wages
This can be closely related to the above since those in positions of authority are meant to rule justly but instead resort to this as a method of oppression.
God gave the following regarding employment and remuneration written in Deuteronomy 24:
Thou shalt not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be thy brother, or a stranger that dwelleth with thee in the land, and is within thy gates: But thou shalt pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintaineth his life: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be reputed to thee for a sin.
Similarly from Ecclesiasticus 34:
He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour. He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, are brothers.
This teaching and sentiment was not lost in Jesus’s time. As written in James 5:
Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
The debt-based economic system driven by interest (usury) and the fractional reserve.
Taxation, which can be higher than 40% in some countries. The “graduated income tax” is consistent to what is found in the Manifesto of the Communist Party attributed to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
The “corporate world” mistreating employees in every respect, including using their livelihoods as hostage.
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I conclude this article with an excerpt from the message of Our Lady of La Salette given by Our Lady to the children Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud on 19 September 1846:
“My Sons ministers, the priests, by their wicked lives, their irreverence and lack of piety in celebrating the Sacred Mysteries, and by their love of money, honor and pleasure have become cesspools of immorality. Their lives cry to Heaven for vengeance, and vengeance is suspended over their heads. Woe to priests and to persons consecrated to God, who by their infidelity and their wicked lives, crucify My Son again. The sins of persons consecrated to God cry to Heaven for vengeance, and now that same vengeance is at their doors, because they are no longer intermediaries between God and men. Their souls are no longer generous, and there is no longer anyone worthy to offer the Victim Without Stain to God on behalf of the people. “God is going to strike mankind in a manner without precedent. “Woe to the people of the earth! God will wreak His anger on mankind and there is no one who can escape so many evils together…”
My only surprise is that God has yet to permit someone to launch nukes or perhaps something more dramatic. There are still a few days left in 2024, one can hope.
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