(April 27, 2015 at 10:16 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Which is a stupid idea. The idea of thoughts equaling actions, or that as soon as you're married you're only attracted to one single person now, is ridiculous. If you're attracted to a woman, who you convince to date you, you're still going to be attracted to similar looking women. Having some random thought about a stranger, then forgetting about it and going about your day, doesn't mean you've committed adultery.
Indeed. Promoting such a ridiculous idea promotes actually acting on those feelings. After all, if you are going to burn in hell for thinking about your neighbor's wife, you might as well really have an affair with her, if she is willing.
It is really a stupid, moronic idea that thinking about something is as bad as doing it. But because this stupid, moronic idea is in the Bible, many people believe it. But the simple fact is, it is impossible to not ever have "bad" thoughts, and it does not hurt anyone if you do have such thoughts occasionally. Acting on them, though, is an entirely different matter, and it is an insane "morality" that does not properly distinguish between the two. They are not even close to being equivalent.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
