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Thread #153367 Message #3591343
Posted By: GUEST,Musket
12-Jan-14 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Can People Forgive?
Subject: RE: BS: Can People Forgive?
Being serious for once... The whole Christian ethos is around everyone being sinners and it is up to Christianity to forgive them. I'm not a sinner because nobody in a dog collar has the right to judge me by dint of their membership of something I'm not signed up to. So it falls at the first hurdle.
Now... I'm not influenced by any religious creed or thought, but the idea of putting some fictitious general sin in the same boat as real sin, such as the ones Eliza mentions.... Christians have no right to forgive or otherwise. People forgive, and being a member of your church or any other doesn't elevate the person to any higher moral ground at all.
A prison chaplain would soon find themselves out of a job if they went around forgiving in that sense. The parole system itself states you are not forgiven till you show remorse.
You aren't a rubbish Christian Eliza. At least you are trying to make head or tail of the concept. I rather doubt you will find a satisfactory answer though..