(December 14, 2015 at 3:08 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 6:58 pm)Stimbo Wrote: What is sin? Who gets to decide?Sin is simply disobedience. If the God character tells you to kill everyone in a town and to burn it to the ground you will commit a sin if you don't do it. If the God character says to stone your rebellious child and you don't then you will commit a sin. If you eat a tuna sandwich you have sinned.
Believe and obey without exception regardless of what you're being told to believe and obey. If you don't you're a sinner and will end up in hell. And that's true of all religions you touch.
Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it as well. That's why it's important to get the definitions of these buzzwords sorted out, so we're not talking past each other going "well, that's not what I believe".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
