RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 14, 2018 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2018 at 1:58 pm by Banned.)
(January 14, 2018 at 2:21 am)Hammy Wrote: Original sin suggests we are a sinner/bad person because Adam and Eve fucked up. Which makes the whole concept of sin even more retarded. It's not just that our bad behavior=we are bad people.... it's that other people's bad behavior makes us bad people.
And more than that, other people's bad behavior=disobeying god.
So.... we are bad people because an imaginary being told some imaginary people who never existed to not do something and they did it anyway.
Errrr.... I think the only theists that care about being logical eventually become atheists.
You are quite right about original sin - it is nonsense.
Original sin is a Catholic doctrine, which the church imbibed from pagan sources, but the Bible does not teach it.
You cannot be guilty of someone else's thought or action, unless you participated in it, and you can only be held accountable if you had knowledge of what you were doing.
I'm sure you would agree that if we deliberately, or through neglect, hurt ourselves or others, we are breaking the laws which nurture life - a physical and undeniable reality.
It may be assumed that no one has any obligation towards life, if it is just an accident by molecules, in which case it would be difficult to convince anyone of obligation and accountability, wouldn't it?