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human
“Let him be condemned” is not necessarily “this person will go to hell,” but the dogma is sound.
gpt
This dogma developed because the early church developed a false understanding that virgin women would be more honored in heaven than married women. So this would place Mary beneath married women in heaven. Ergo they needed to preserve Mary's virginity throughout her entire life. Which of course leads to the question of what is the state of her hymen since it would break in childbirth, so the idea of in partu (in childbirth) virginity was concocted. This is the reason this idea exists. It has no basis in truth.