• Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Shouldn’t he know already? Like one of those psychics. How do they stay in business?

      • emogu@lemmy.world
        7·
        10 months ago

        I mean in fairness it is Saturday. He’s probably phoning it in today so he can watch YouTube on the toilet.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      26·
      10 months ago

      Not sure how old 4th grade is, but I’d have been about 6 or 7 when Amanda Jackson told me I couldn’t borrow her colouring pencils because I didn’t believe in Jesus. We’re in the UK, it’s not like it’s even such a huge thing over here, and joke’s on her anyway because in the end the teacher ruled that she had to share.

      Screw you Amanda. Never forget.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      52·
      10 months ago

      Why do you assume all religious people think the way she does? Isn’t that painting with a broad brush just like she did?

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      The proper response to that is “At least I’ll be in good company.”

      Joke’s on her anyway. I’d say she’s going to be disappointed when she dies, but she won’t be anything.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    391·
    10 months ago

    Got sucked off in a church once. Wasn’t smitten.

    Also: it was (luckily) by my gf, not the priest.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        yeah but to know what sins actually are you gotta read the bible, and ain’t no christian got time for that! Easier to just let Fox tell us what our religion says is good or bad.

    • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I’m imagining you’ve been the father, the mother and the doctor in these events that you have participated in.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        None of the above: I’m a surgical tech, my role is to get the instruments, supplies, and equipment needed for a surgery; establish sterile fields and get those instruments etc on them in a sterile way; facilitate the actual surgery by making sure the surgeon never has idle hands (we have to know the surgeries well enough to anticipate what instrument the surgeon will want in each step), and get the room turned over for the next case.

        It’s a cool job, but the pay’s kinda shit, so I don’t recommend it as anything other than a stepping stone to something like nursing, which is what I’m currently working toward.

    • Kittenstix@beehaw.org
      15·
      10 months ago

      Neither of those are sin, Christians just don’t understand what sin is, the word itself means “to miss the mark” how is being gay missing the mark? It’s not, it only used to be because being gay basically sentenced your entire family to starvation, last I checked your kin aren’t starving to death because you have a partner are they? Also Jesus would prefer you be an athiest than a false Christian. Everyone is saved anyway so even ‘belief’ isn’t necessary to be resurrected in the kingdom on earth.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    242·
    10 months ago

    During covid, I had one teensy moment of not being careful with myself, and I think I spread the virus. Down the line, I’m told someone died from it. I consider myself a woman of faith, and to this day, the idea I caused a death still terrifies me.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    20·
    10 months ago

    Definitely the time I puked all over a homeless guy on the Red Line and then just… got off the train. I was very drunk, but that’s no excuse.

  • Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee
    223·
    10 months ago

    Sin isn’t real. Live your life however you want without being a dick to others

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      53·
      10 months ago

      without being a dick to others

      Well there you go, you’ve just defined sin(lessness)

      Not everyone has the same definition though - but if you’re coming from a Christian-influenced culture, that’s not far off the core meaning of sin in Christianity, just with an added “easier said than done”

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 months ago

        Sin - a deed that sky fairy says is bad and you must jump through this sky fairy’s follwers’ hoops to divest yourself of it to remain in their and sky fairy’s favor. If you don’t, you don’t get to go to sky fairy’s happy place when you die.

        Being a dick - no sky fairy involved. You’re just being a dick and need to make amends if you don’t want to be perceived as a dick, or just carry on being one. No divine retribution, no hoops to jump through for Elysium.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
          11·
          10 months ago

          So, it’s like if you smoke cigarettes next to a pregnant lady, and the sign on the wall says no smoking. If someone asks you to stop, are they currying favour with the wall-fairy? Or are you being a dick by passing smoke to the lady (even if you don’t realise it’s damaging her health).

          Besides, if we’re talking Christian belief, said sky fairy is the same who made you and the world you live in, not too mention a bunch of other credentials, so he has a bit more clout than your average pigeon.

          And as to the followers’ hoops: “the views expressed herein do not always represent the views of the management” (although they ought to, if followers are following well!)

      • Coolishguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        In some Christianity. Many define it in terms of disobeying God, which can conflict pretty badly with the not-being-a-dick thing depending on interpretation

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
          1·
          10 months ago

          In correct Christianity. (Yes, I am bigoted about what sort of Christianity is correct.)

          Obeying God is, a) not being a dick to God, and b) not being a dick is easier said than done and God understands this better than we do.

          Agreed the interpretation can turn this to either seem bad or genuinely be bad; and there are other also-valid ways to oversimplify it. But I still contend that in genuine Christianity not-sin is at least essentially close to not-being-a dick as long as you can think ahead to later consequences of your actions and not be a dick with the consequences either.

          • Coolishguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I’m not Christian, so I don’t have a view on what interpretations are “correct.” But if I might ask, how did you come to the conclusion that your interpretation is the right one?

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’m not from a religious background but I always thought sex before marriage is a sin, no? I’m not sure how in modern times sex before marriage between two consenting adults is being a dick.