What Exactly Are Sins?

[Mudhammam]

Which is a stupid idea. The idea of thoughts equaling actions, or that as soon as you're married you're only attracted to one single person now, is ridiculous. If you're attracted to a woman, who you convince to date you, you're still going to be attracted to similar looking women. Having some random thought about a stranger, then forgetting about it and going about your day, doesn't mean you've committed adultery.

Indeed.  Promoting such a ridiculous idea promotes actually acting on those feelings.  After all, if you are going to burn in hell for thinking about your neighbor's wife, you might as well really have an affair with her, if she is willing.

It is really a stupid, moronic idea that thinking about something is as bad as doing it.  But because this stupid, moronic idea is in the Bible, many people believe it.  But the simple fact is, it is impossible to not ever have "bad" thoughts, and it does not hurt anyone if you do have such thoughts occasionally.  Acting on them, though, is an entirely different matter, and it is an insane "morality" that does not properly distinguish between the two.  They are not even close to being equivalent.

If the mass of Christendom didn't pride themselves on ignorance, what all too often appears to be an obviously half-baked and primitive morality could easily be spun into a piece of practical wisdom. In this instance, one could say that Jesus is referring to the hypocrisy of those who snub their noses at degenerates and is making the point that intentions are far more important than actual deeds, at least in many instances. Of course, as evidenced by our resident Christians, most believers have an extremely vulgar and simplistic view of the world, and hence, their faith, and think all sins are no-no's of equal merit because even the most harmless earns its offender hellfire on the Day of Judgment. All that said, you won't ever hear a defense from me of the really ridiculous shit that the NT advocates under the pretense of righteousness.