RE: What Exactly Are Sins?
April 28, 2015 at 10:00 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2015 at 10:01 am by Pyrrho.)
(April 28, 2015 at 9:15 am)Nope Wrote:(April 27, 2015 at 9:33 pm)Polaris Wrote: The point of that passage is, if you're married and have sexual thoughts of someone who is not your spouse, you're cheating on them.
How do you not have sexual thoughts about the sex you find attractive? As long as you don't believe the person you desire owes you attention then your secret fantasies aren't hurting anyone.In your case, your thoughts couldn't hurt the woman's marriage because,I assume, you didn't tell her.
Putting so much emphasis on your imagination cheapens the reason why adultery is wrong. It is ultimately the lie and breaking your pledge that causes problems in marriage and not the actual act of sex.
Other than the last conjunct of the last sentence, you are right. But you left off the fact that actual adultery can lead to pregnancy and/or STDs being transmitted. Those are far from nothing. And they are only a potential problem when one acts, not when one fantasizes.
The idea that a fantasy is the same as an action is so ludicrously stupid it is breathtaking. But breathtaking stupidity is common in religion.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
