(September 22, 2011 at 4:37 am)ElDinero Wrote: Being racist makes you a murderer? Yeah ok then. It's stupid shit like that which makes the Bible such a poor source of morality. People have the right to believe whatever they want. So if they believe black people are evil, or the holocaust never happened, or evolution is a myth, that's their right. This is what we mean when we accuse God of convicting people of thought crime. People here in the real world are judged on actions, not thoughts.You may have missed the point that the issue was murder and hate without cause (using the standard from the Bible, as I indicated) would be similar to murder. You regard only overt actions as being important and not your thoughts? So you can think all kind of dirty thoughts, indulging in pornography, read hate expressed towards any group and hating people who you choose to hate and be "pure"? This reflects on what many people regard as acceptable.
An earthly judge could not convict you of being sexist. Analogy falls down.
Yes, in the physical world actions is all we can judge on.
It would be impossible for you to judge whether God has access to your thoughts and He never, not once asks us to judge a person on his/her thoughts. In actual fact, we are asked not to judge (see commandments re treatment of even enemies).
But to put some futher perspective, these may be worthy of consideration:
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Mat 15:20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone."
Even Buddha said: "What we think, we become.”
You may also enjoy the funny quote from Oscar Wilde (in view of movies coming out of Hollywood) “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Enjoy your thoughts, but beware it may make you sick (medical fact) indicating that even if you believe that evolution is not the huge hoax it is, bad thoughts are detrimental to the survival of the specie.