(February 16, 2015 at 12:45 pm)Chad32 Wrote: This is also similar to sins tha you have no control over. thought crime is a good example, because you can't keep from thinking things. You can only refrain from acting on your thoughts. So since thinking about killing someone is as bad as actually doing it in Yahweh's eyes, you'd have to continually ask for forgiveness anyway. If you were genuinely sorry for every bad thought you had, you wouldn't be able to live your life. You'd go catatonic unless you found a way to make it stop bothering you so much. eventually you'd be begging forgiveness for something you'd done a trillion times over, and not really be genuinely sorry about it.
Oh yeah. I was raised Lutheran. I remember the confession we said every Sunday.
"... and have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and what we have left undone. We justly deserve your present and eternal punishment."
Pretty much existing is enough to get you thrown into hell, and the apologists would have me believe that I have to be continually repentant to avoid that. Either no one gets to heaven, or this loophole is apt. Either way you slice it, the system doesn't generate anything resembling sane results.
(February 16, 2015 at 12:45 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Any system that centers around what you say, instead of what you do, is flawed. Yahweh doesn't care about how many good things you did, compared to how many bad things. Only that you're very sorry for being born evil.
And that you swore the correct oath of fealty before you died. That's apparently super fucking important.
