{"id":10668,"date":"2011-05-28T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/28\/hell\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T18:57:44","slug":"hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/28\/hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">The Constructive Curmudgeon<\/a> I happened upon <a href=\"http:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/hell.html\" target=\"_self\">this quotation<\/a> which is relevant to recent concerns:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin\u2014it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen\u2014and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#8211;Thomas Aquinas, <em>Summa Theologica<\/em>, Ia2ae. 87, 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Constructive Curmudgeon I happened upon this quotation which is relevant to recent concerns: The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin\u2014it is more criminal to strike a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/28\/hell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquinas-and-thomism","category-heaven-and-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}