What's Your Moral IQ on Violence, Fear and Habit in Moral Matters?

Violence, Fear, and Habit in Moral Matters

Allow ten points for each question. One hundred per cent means that you are a moral theologian; 90, you know the law; 80, you are about average; 70, you'd better join a study club.
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I. What is violence?

2. Mary, violently resisting, is carried into a Baptist revival and forced, against her will, to take part in the services. Does Mary sin in any way?

3. If John saw that he would be forced to eat meat on Friday whether he resisted or not, would he be obliged to resist?

4. Louise, being forced to commit a sin against her will, does not resist. She knows that there are people around who will be scandalized by her lack of resistance. Does she sin?

5. Alice Marie, forced at the point of a gun to give her employer's money to a robber, inwardly gives consent to her sin. She does not believe that she can sin in this case. Is she right?

6. What is fear?

7. When would a person, who acted because of fear, not be guilty of sin?

8. Whenever Jack slices a ball on the golf course, he inadvertently blasphemes. Is Jack guilty of sin?

9. If Jack, who inadvertently blasphemes on the golf course, recognizes that he has a bad habit and does nothing about it, is he guilty of sin?

10. Pat, forced at the point of a gun to sign a contract, wonders if she is obliged to keep it.
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Answers next Monday...

Adapted from The Queen's Work Magazine, December 1946