If you could rid the world...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The things you list are crimes or ethical shortcomings, not sins.

 you do not have the authority or even a dictionary entry that supports your identification of what sin is. you are speaking only from a deeply held atheist belief concerning your personal definition of sin. that sport is not something you get to administrate over.

As you and your ilk are so fond of telling us, a sin is a transgression of divine law. Since divine law exists only as a fantasy in the minds of weak-brained people, sin is a non-concept.

ah.. no.. not once ever have i used the rc version of the definition of sin. this is where you fail again. trying to push all expressions of christianity under one denominations rules or system of belief. that is like saying all asian people are chinese no matter ethnicity or country of origins.

You can’t rid the world of something that doesn’t exist.

Boru

but you can rid the world of a category of willful and practiced behavior. (terrorism is one such category or classification, sin being another) or at least one can wish for such a thing. that's all sin is. it is a category of behavior identified as being outside the will of parameters of the church which are ultimatly set by God.. and before you waste your time repeating yourself, take a moment and think before you speak. think of the definition provided. sin is a category or classification of behavior. meaning by this definition God... does not have to be real... only the behavior identified as sin, AND the religion providing the category or classification has to be real as well. so whether you believe in god or not your argument is moot because sin is not God. sin is behavior the  religion finds objectionable or evil and the maintains the standard.. so all one needs for the classification of sin to exist is a religion to create and enforce the list, and the list itself. not sin is not apart of the lexicon it is also apart of the culture who practices said religion.

So, you would outlaw blasphemous speech, which most religions find objectionable?

In any case, religions are hardly the arbiters of moral behaviour.


Boru