Reply #16: I'd need a book to answer your questions,

[forgethell]

if I even could, which I doubt. Better theologians than me have tried. As for sin, well, God hasn't ranked them for me, unless the 10 commandments put them in order of importance. However, as I understand it, any sin is enough to separate us from the presence of God. And, for Christians, it is only through Christ's redeeming grace that we can again approach him. Other religions, heck, even other Christian interpretations approach the questions differently.

As for sexual sin (which, as the priest in my parish of years past used to say, God forgives a dime a dozen [/i, well, God can forgive murder, too, or any sin.