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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Does this mean that a truly religious person shouldn't also worry about the spiritual well-being of every human being?
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No.
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
This was quoted once, so it's responding to both the original and the quotiation. If homosexuality is a sin like stealing or murder, then the point kind of falls apart. Unless you love murderers and thieves and don't judge them. In which case, you're a better person than I.
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Homosexuality, assuming it is a sin, which I do not believe, isn't a sin like stealing and murder. Those are sins that directly harm others, while homosexuality is not.
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Don't nitpick this point with "well murder and stealing hurt someone else and being gay doesn't" since that's not the point. The point is, given this premise, they're all sins and, generally when people do things that we think are wrong-regardless of our creed-we dislike them and judge them.
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Nonsense. Not all sins are equal to one another merely because they are sins. If someone consistently eats more than they need to (gluttony), I'm going to neither dislike nor judge them for that. Why? Because it doesn't harm me or any other person, and the degree to which that behavior is a sin or not and how that sin is to be resolved is a matter strictly between that person and God. God judges and forgives sins. It isn't my place to do the first, and I have no power to do the second.
We dislike and judge murders and thieves because they inflict harm on others, that is, we react to them because of the effect of their actions on others, not because those actions are sins. We all sin a dozen, two dozen times a day. I sin every time I open up Tilted Exhibition, especially threads with colors in the title. I sin every time I go to the KFC buffet. I don't believe what I do with my wife sexually is a sin, but if it is, the degree to which that harms my soul and whether or not I need to be punished for that sin is strictly God's place to decide, not anybody else's.
Gilda