Christianism preaches so much compassion, yet also teaches Christians not to have compassion even for themselves, for what is the natural reactions of impulses of the mind and body. Feeling lust towards someone you’re attracted to is natural. Feeling anger towards someone who harms you is natural. What matters is whether your actions you choose to commit after having those thoughts may bring harm to yourself or others, but when you think you have a security guard monitoring your thoughts every second of your life, it’s much harder to reach that conclusion. Like another user said down here, this guy would have a much healthier life if he just had a wank when he came back home.
The “before I cave in” remark is probably just about failing the “avert my eyes” thing and looking at the women in the Mat 5:28, committing adultery in your heart kind of way. From a Catholic perspective OOP’s concerns are completely reasonable as even thinking about sex too hard is supposed to send you to the forever torture zone. I doubt this guy is a hair trigger away from committing SA but the situation is disturbing in a few other ways
Source: am ex-cradle-Catholic and read all the stuff about sexual morality
even thinking about sex too hard is supposed to send you to the forever torture
Except for the part where literally any crime imaginable can be forgiven if you repent and believe in Jesus. Which kinda makes all the different rules Christianity imposes on its adherents completely moot.
Yeah the “thought crime” aspects of some religions seems to be incredibly damaging. Like your brain is not fully under your control. Thought is a messy place. Treating it as an evil to always be expunged and rigidly controlled tends to translate into some pretty toxic behaviours or at the very least an erosion of self worth.
My thoughts? You’re a piece of shit and should absolutely leave that gym and do your workouts at home or behind bars where you more than likely belong.
This part of the bible I still think makes sense as an atheist, people have to accept their own responsibility and stop blaming other people for their own fallings.
This guy in reddit sounds dangerous the way he talks about women and caving in.
He’s talking about things like lust, or masturbation, not assaulting someone. Thoughts that you consider normal, are things that religious people struggle with.
I literally hated myself if I got horny enough to masturbate, usually upwards to half a year of repressing myself. I refused to pursue romantic relationships, considering myself not good enough, despite others showing very direct interest.
It’s so stupid the Bible has so many big rules and this is a small interpretation, like the gay thing or the don’t eat seafood thing or stone your slaves thing. So unnecessary
This is a legitimate “issue” though. Not so much on my current gym but on the one I went to previously. Now don’t get me wrong; I love seeing women dressed that way. I’m just not sure they like me and every other guy there zoning out between sets just staring at them. Working out is hard enough. I don’t want to have to conscioussly avoid staring at the women there the whole time. This is why I think there should be more gyms just for guys the same way there’s women-only gyms aswell. I prefer lifting heavy weights with just sweaty ugly men around me.
Just remember that these are the kind of people that believe that without the word of God to dictate morality to humanity that literally everyone would be a murdering, raping, cannibalistic monster. They literally cannot understand that people can be good without the fear of eternal damnation looming over them at all times.
Repeating myself, but the jackass who made Supersize Me had a short-lived tv show where people of opposing backgrounds swapped lives. The christian nutter went to live with Muslims and talked about how if you don’t get your values from the bible, he can’t imagine what you must believe.
You’re spot on with this comment. They absolutely have an inability to think outside the confines of their own mental prisons. I’m sure that even pre-language proto-humans could discern morality and whether their actions were justified or not, even if unable to articulate the concept.
A lot of non huma animals are able to understand that their actions have a good or bad impact on others. Those people rank very low on evolutionary scale.
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