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Is the Perverted Faculty Argument Sound?

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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The Perverted Faculty Argument

In Latin, the word picatum is much more polyvalent than it is in English and English. In English, sin has a clear moral connotation; in Latin, picatum is any kind of missing the mark. A grammatical mistake is a picatum, for example. If an arrow is aimed at a target and it misses, it's a picatum. So then, I mean, I would say that any also any misused of the faculty is a Picatum. Just trying to bring it back. Well, there's definitely been a development or a change of language too. Even in the Renaissance, the terms sin and mortal sin weren't always clearly delineated between the

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