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the nature of sin
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 (April 28, 2020 at 8:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 7:32 pm)chimp3 Wrote: No god, no sin. I don't give a shit what the Bible says. I am SUCH a sinner!
Dying to live, living to die.
 (April 28, 2020 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 8:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense (hurting yourself isn’t sinful, just stupid).’ - Robert Heinlein It doesn’t count as sin if they can’t find the bodies, amirite? Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 (April 28, 2020 at 8:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 7:32 pm)chimp3 Wrote: No god, no sin. I don't give a shit what the Bible says. I prefer the word "crime". Something we can and have to agree on.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
(April 28, 2020 at 9:26 pm)chimp3 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 8:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense (hurting yourself isn’t sinful, just stupid).’ - Robert Heinlein It’s a grey area. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
(April 28, 2020 at 9:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I am SUCH a sinner! In that case I need to train others.
Dying to live, living to die.
 RE: the nature of sin
April 28, 2020 at 10:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2020 at 10:14 pm by brewer.)
Just found this and thought it would be fun to read, it wasn't.
Sin is simply a negative judgement with a religious twist. The type of religion determines the significance of the sin. Cutting off testicles in most religions = sin. In Heaven's Gate, not so much. (April 28, 2020 at 9:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(April 28, 2020 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I am SUCH a sinner! Oh shit, I thought this was going to be a sex thing. My bad.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
Just had an Esprit de l'Escalier
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
Sin is the preposterous religious notion that The AllMighty Creator of the Universe cares what you do with your genitals.
  (April 29, 2020 at 1:44 am)Belacqua Wrote: Dante shows lust to be the least bad and most easily forgiven sin. The worst is pride. Well, *DUH* obviously. That's why there are so many pedophiles in Vatican and catholic clergy - because they esily forgive them when they rape kids. PRIEST: Father, I lusted over 50 kids last month. CARDINAL: Oh, you are forgiven, you silly goose. Here, you have a mission in school in Central African Republic.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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