Mortal Sin


Candy asks Jean if her mother's suicide constituted a "mortal sin." Jean lies to her to placate her, I suppose; because suicide is a mortal sin. One cannot guess the reason one takes one's life; that is left to God. However, in Christian theology from the original days, taking one's life was one of the "sins that cry out to heaven." It implies one has lost hope in God and there's nothing...

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