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There's a significant difference between selling your soul for personal gain, as Faust did, and sacrificing your soul for the lives of others, which is a fairly standard heroic trope.

Personally yes, I would believe that any deity worth the worship would recognise that difference and make the appropriate allowances, but Kurt can't be sure about that, because a core concept of Catholic faith is that God gave us all free will, any choice we make is ours, for better or worse. If God removed free will, then we'd be puppets, and that would be even creepier.

And of course, it's hard to quantify what a soul actually is or does. (Piers Anthony in his Xanth books has a golem-like creature worry about whether it has a soul or not and after many trials is rewarded, not with a yes or a no, but with the answer that only something with a soul would worry about whether or not they had one in the first place.) So the fact Kurt worries about not hacing one any more doesn't mean he doesn't, only that he believes he doesn't.