http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:55:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-118 Jennifer Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:10:12 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-118 No problem :) It took me a while to track down a list too. No problem It took me a while to track down a list too.

]]> http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-117 atheistgirl Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:27:35 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-117 Yes! thank you. i've been asking everyone to actually list them for me but everyone only knew pollution and abortion off the top of their head. (wow. that sentence far from 'grammatically correct') Yes! thank you. i’ve been asking everyone to actually list them for me but everyone only knew pollution and abortion off the top of their head. (wow. that sentence far from ‘grammatically correct’)

]]> http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-106 Holly Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:45:07 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-106 Oh ok, that's weird! I write mine in Firefox and it works fine for me. I wonder if Brooke will leave a comment. :P Oh ok, that’s weird! I write mine in Firefox and it works fine for me.
I wonder if Brooke will leave a comment.

]]> http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-105 Jennifer Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:08:55 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-105 Someone's been busy! About the image, I did tell it to have a gap before the text but apparently Wordpress liked its own way better. Maybe I should try writing posts in a different browser. Someone’s been busy!
About the image, I did tell it to have a gap before the text but apparently WordPress liked its own way better. Maybe I should try writing posts in a different browser.

]]> http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-103 Holly Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:56:43 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-103 ^ OH. MY. GOD. Beat that, Brooke! ;) ^ OH. MY. GOD.
Beat that, Brooke!

]]> http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/sin-sin-sin/#comment-102 Holly Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:56:07 +0000 http://breathlessmind.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-102 I like the picture, it's pretty. If you don't want the text to be pushed right up against it you need to add a couple of pixels worth of vertical and horizontal space around it (I normally use 3). Hahaha I never saw the Vatican's Secret Archives, because I referenced the stuff.co.nz site instead of the BBC, but I agree, that does sound a little suspicious! I hadn't thought about it from that perspective of the church wanting to improve the world! That's a good point and it DOES sound rather noble, but I think your point is better. Simply apologising (or confessing to having done it) for something doesn't undo what was done to begin with, so surely it'd be better for the church to use the influence it obviously has to encourage people to avoid doing these harmful things to begin with! What I don't understand though, is why the church's objective seems to be getting more people to attend confession. Surely they don't WANT to hand people more opportunities to sin, just so they can confess to it. Most likely, in the church's ideal world - confession would be more or less redundant, since people wouldn't sin in the first place! Haha, thanks for trackbacking to me...I think I got some hits...and this random email telling me you'd linked to me! :P My point sounds kind of petty now. Apparently I was so eager to write SOMETHING about this, that I didn't think it through terribly well. Oh well, nevermind. Although, your next paragraph does kind of talk about the same things as me, as far as the (apparent!) unchanging-ness of God goes. Susie always claims that God and his rules NEVEREVEREVER change to suit society and the lifestyles of the people in it...although apparently the Pope disagrees! I wonder if Brio will mention anything about this in their next updates. I hope they do, for once I'd actually LIKE to hear their view! Perhaps another email is in order!? Poor Old Uncle Joe. I wonder if he'd still go to Hell for his excessive wealth if he died before confessing. That doesn't seem very just, if he did not know that it was sinful! It's not in the same category as something like pedophilia, where anybody with a brain and any morals at all - religious or otherwise, is able to figure out that it is wrong. I also wonder how they selected the sins. If God spoke to the Pope etc and told them what to add, why was every other Christian denomination apparently excluded from this?! Please let's debate where we ought to draw the line with the whole pig-genes thing. I don't know what I think!? EVERY ACTION IN THE ENTIRE WORLD EVER is going to be morally debatable in some way, at least to some groups of people...does that mean that everything in the whole world is a sin...!? What ARE fundamental rights of human nature? I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and assume that they are things like the right not to be abused or murdered...and yes, they do sound like things which ought to not be violated. But isn't abusing and killing somebody already a sin? No. Pedophilia (how do you spell that!? Does it have 2 As...because they way I'm spelling it now is not flagged as an error with a little red line underneath it) does not require discussion, although, in her comment on my blog, Nellie mentioned all the cases of child molestation which were committed by members of Catholic clergy. Interesting. Ooooh...abortion. Please let's debate that. It sounds like a picnic...only not, because nobody ever agrees with me...not even Susie. The fact that Hell is scary is important I think. What else do you think keeps people going to church!? I wonder how many people "believe" because they fear the alternative, as opposed to believing because they believe it has its own value. You know what I think is interesting? There are a lot of articles online about/for Christians who are grieving for loved ones who were also Christians, but virtually none about grieving for loved ones who were unbelievers. And on that cheery note, I will hit "Submit Comment", before this beast of a thing becomes longer than your entry! I like the picture, it’s pretty. If you don’t want the text to be pushed right up against it you need to add a couple of pixels worth of vertical and horizontal space around it (I normally use 3).
Hahaha I never saw the Vatican’s Secret Archives, because I referenced the stuff.co.nz site instead of the BBC, but I agree, that does sound a little suspicious!
I hadn’t thought about it from that perspective of the church wanting to improve the world! That’s a good point and it DOES sound rather noble, but I think your point is better. Simply apologising (or confessing to having done it) for something doesn’t undo what was done to begin with, so surely it’d be better for the church to use the influence it obviously has to encourage people to avoid doing these harmful things to begin with!
What I don’t understand though, is why the church’s objective seems to be getting more people to attend confession. Surely they don’t WANT to hand people more opportunities to sin, just so they can confess to it. Most likely, in the church’s ideal world – confession would be more or less redundant, since people wouldn’t sin in the first place!
Haha, thanks for trackbacking to me…I think I got some hits…and this random email telling me you’d linked to me!
My point sounds kind of petty now. Apparently I was so eager to write SOMETHING about this, that I didn’t think it through terribly well. Oh well, nevermind.
Although, your next paragraph does kind of talk about the same things as me, as far as the (apparent!) unchanging-ness of God goes. Susie always claims that God and his rules NEVEREVEREVER change to suit society and the lifestyles of the people in it…although apparently the Pope disagrees! I wonder if Brio will mention anything about this in their next updates. I hope they do, for once I’d actually LIKE to hear their view! Perhaps another email is in order!?
Poor Old Uncle Joe. I wonder if he’d still go to Hell for his excessive wealth if he died before confessing. That doesn’t seem very just, if he did not know that it was sinful! It’s not in the same category as something like pedophilia, where anybody with a brain and any morals at all – religious or otherwise, is able to figure out that it is wrong.
I also wonder how they selected the sins. If God spoke to the Pope etc and told them what to add, why was every other Christian denomination apparently excluded from this?!
Please let’s debate where we ought to draw the line with the whole pig-genes thing. I don’t know what I think!?
EVERY ACTION IN THE ENTIRE WORLD EVER is going to be morally debatable in some way, at least to some groups of people…does that mean that everything in the whole world is a sin…!?
What ARE fundamental rights of human nature? I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and assume that they are things like the right not to be abused or murdered…and yes, they do sound like things which ought to not be violated. But isn’t abusing and killing somebody already a sin?
No. Pedophilia (how do you spell that!? Does it have 2 As…because they way I’m spelling it now is not flagged as an error with a little red line underneath it) does not require discussion, although, in her comment on my blog, Nellie mentioned all the cases of child molestation which were committed by members of Catholic clergy. Interesting.
Ooooh…abortion. Please let’s debate that. It sounds like a picnic…only not, because nobody ever agrees with me…not even Susie.
The fact that Hell is scary is important I think. What else do you think keeps people going to church!? I wonder how many people “believe” because they fear the alternative, as opposed to believing because they believe it has its own value.
You know what I think is interesting? There are a lot of articles online about/for Christians who are grieving for loved ones who were also Christians, but virtually none about grieving for loved ones who were unbelievers.
And on that cheery note, I will hit “Submit Comment”, before this beast of a thing becomes longer than your entry!

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