What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[abaris]

I'm not sure what the issue is, Parkers. If you mentally address a woman and imagine yourself having sex with her, you have committed the sin of adultery in your head just as much as the man who physically does it. Is this so difficult to understand?

If one man walks into a church and opens fire on a group of people having a prayer meeting, how is he more guilty of hatred than the man who imagines himself doing the same thing but cannot get up the courage to actually pull the trigger?

God judges the heart because He knows the inner thoughts.

Have you read and understood Orwell's 1984?

If so, you might just be able to understand the difference and the problems involved. What you probably won't understand is what this thought crime indoctrination does to the minds of children.