Flax_vert
@Flax_vert@feddit.uk
Fediverse Advocate
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 hours ago:
So who do you believe? Who do you listen to?
I believe that man is made in the image of God, and the Nazi’s treatment of people degrading them as livestock was deeply blasphemous, cruel and immoral. They did not love God with all of their heart and did not love their neighbour as themselves. So I conclude that the Nazis were evil and anyone today who continues to sympathise with them is evil.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 hours ago:
I am convinced that Jesus literally and bodily rose from the dead, and Is Who He says He Is. That is, that He is God.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 3 hours ago:
Any evidence for that, aside from a book that doesn’t cite sources?
The book is the source. And those sources willingly faced torment and execution for that fact.
And yet, they do that all the time, don’t they?
I do not condone that.
Or to ensure that women don’t have rights to their own bodies.
Never heard of this happening.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 hours ago:
So if nazis were to take over and start making these horrible morals, and people follow them, it’ll be okay?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 17 hours ago:
Looking after your grandmother doesn’t benefit humanity. In fact, looking after the old would negatively impact humanity as it’s basically a waste of resources.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 20 hours ago:
There is nothing in the Bible about Mary Magdalene being stoned to death. You’re probably thinking about an unnamed woman in John 8:1-11. He does admonish her, instructing her to “go and sin no more.”
I used the ESV. I am a fellow NIV-hater, too. I can use the NRSV if you’d like.
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 NRSV
[15] Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! [16] Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.” [17] But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. [18] Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. [19] Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? [20] For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.
I think getting pedantic about the meaning of prostitute here is kind of just looking for an excuse to be hedonist. The language here is more about unnecessary fornication that Paul uses, rather than forced purchases.
The issue isn’t the act of sin itself, but pretending it is not sin, that you are better than sin; not acknowledging the sin. OP does try to control it, and doesn’t engage in wanton unrestrained lust - thus they have already repented. Of they still feel guilty after, and assuming it’s not caused by peer pressure, that is their burden to carry, because it means they are using lust to fill some other damage their soul carries.
I am not here to condemn OP. I would even like to support OP. But people trying to reassure OP by lying to him by saying “it’s actually not a sin because historical xyz” and trying to wriggle their way out of that piece of scripture, is not something I want to sit and watch. If you want to reassure OP, reassure him that he’s not going to hell because of God’s forgiveness. Yes, this isn’t a licence to sin, but I don’t think OP is treating it that way. He seems to be struggling.
But your admonishment of their action, however, is judgement. And you must remember that you’ll be judged as well.
NOT ONCE did I judge OP. And admonishment isn’t judgement. I’m just not letting people lie to him by trying to convince me that a sin isn’t a sin. We are literally instructed to admonish one and other
Colossians 3:16 NRSV
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.
If you’re a Jesuit, then you should know the Catechism of the Roman Catholic church forbids prostitution.
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Prostitution does injury to the dignity of the person who engages in it, reducing the person to an instrument of sexual pleasure. The one who pays sins gravely against himself: he violates the chastity to which his Baptism pledged him and defiles his body, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Prostitution is a social scourge. It usually involves women, but also men, children, and adolescents (The latter two cases involve the added sin of scandal.). While it is always gravely sinful to engage in prostitution, the imputability of the offense can be attenuated by destitution, blackmail, or social pressure.
Jesus called prostitutes out of sin.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 20 hours ago:
Satanists are like: “We don’t actually believe in satan” which is funny because that’s exactly what satan wants you to think
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
Nah. I think I’ve been quite infamous around here for being an outspoken Christian
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
Why would you assume that the teachings of the Christian bible are correct, not in just this matter, but any other? Why not any other scripture? Buddhists, for instance, would say that any desire prevents you from progressing spiritually.
Because Jesus Christ rose from the dead. OP is a Christian and believes that.
Satanists (me!) would say that no desire is inherently wrong, and that it’s how the desire is expressed, and it’s whether it overrides someone else’s autonomy that makes a thing right or wrong.
Why should OP listen to and try to appease a Satanist? Your opinion is irrelevant at that stage. This is the same as a Christian telling an atheist that their gay relationship is wrong. Just reversed.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 1 day ago:
When the man was hired in early 2023, he provided the chippie with a national insurance number, proof of student loan payments and housing benefit receipts from the local council. He also provided a photocopy of his British passport and was paid via pay as you earn (PAYE) through HMRC.
Shouldn’t they fine the illegal in that case? It sounds like the business took appropriate measures.
Granted, you can check if a passport is authentic using your phone (as passports have RFID chips which contain digitally signed data that your phone can read) but I wouldn’t expect an old bloke to know how to do that
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 day ago:
Trump would go because he is orange
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
But why does it matter? You can still be moral and be an atheist, but it involves adopting someone’s moral standard without any rational basis.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
There’s no contradiction here. The Bible forbids adultery, but also commands forgiveness.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
I’ve known a hindu who said he attended Church services when in the west as he thought it was valid worship. So they definitely exist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
You can also act morally out of love for God. A moral act is a moral act regardless of intention. The alternative is no morality at all. And in that case, you’re either following the law out of love for your state and/or fellow human, or because you don’t want to be sent to prison for breaking the law.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
they’re basic human values.
According to who?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
What makes you believe, aside from your attempts to manage your terror of non-existence, that any of your morality matters at all?
Because I believe that the moral code I follow was authored by a Creator higher than the universe.
If you’re an atheist, morality simply is just a suggestion.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
Was he one of them?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
So we shouldn’t stone adulterers? I never said we should.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
So why does one Humans moral code matter more than another
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
What if someone else does?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
No. We are inbuilt with a moral code by God. However, people can desensitise themselves to things or lie to themselves. This is why you need a moral code given by God. You cannot have an moral code without God.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
One who has a love of Christ tries to avoid hate. Hate sows murder.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
When?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
He said that she was forgiven and shouldn’t sin anymore. He didn’t say “prostitution is now okay”.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
Who is your god?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
True, but He didn’t advocate for people buying them and sleeping with them. He advocated for them to be free from their vice.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
That’s disgusting.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV
[21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
Hindus aren’t monotheists. Iirc, Hindus kind of believe most religions are real, a lot of them believe that Jesus is an image of God I think. They are more open to people picking and choosing a god. Christians only believe there is one true God.