It’s tempting to think there is some sort of formula by which we can see how deeply we are immersed in sin of various kinds. “Well,” we could say, “I’m at an average of 72% of the Seven Deadlies. Therefore, I will make it into Heaven after 7.2 years in Purgatory.”
Things are not meant to be quite that simple, but we can quantify how far we are immersed in lies. If we believe, for instance, that Global Warming is a real threat to civilization, and that human activity contributes greatly to that threat, we are, in that area, half full of lies. If we believe that human activity should have additional regulations, costs, or restrictions, we are proportionately filled with more lies.
We are either gullible or wilfully choose to pass such lies on. God may punish both gullibility of such a degree and wilful lying the same, since such gullibility was freely chosen.
Such lies are like logs, cut down, trimmed to size, and dragged to places where there is free flow of human thought and progress. There, they are thrown in to dam the stream. As a result of such lies, people die of malaria. People are needlessly taxed. Expenses are high.
Those who freely choose to dam the stream are participating in a criminal act of great immorality.
