Implications of Original Sin

[oggiesnr]

It is no longer there (instead there is a screed about historical context etc) but in Lincoln Cathedral there is "The Niche Of Little St Hugh" (it's on the south side of the Angel Choir) and there was the "Prayer of Little St Hugh". Little St Hugh was the infant supposedly murdered by the Jew's Daughter which gave rise to the pogram in Lincoln.

The prayer read -

From the sins of my father,
And his father,
And his fore-fathers before him,
Good Lord deliver me,
Amen."

Just an historical aside

Steve

 

[shadron]

What does a "nice christian person" look like exactly?

K_K would know. But, please, don't ask her.

 

[arthwollipot]

Morrigan has a point, Ethnikos. What specifically amounts to serving Satan? Do this mean specifically begcomming a Satanist, or does it merely refer to general wongdoing? If it's the latter, was Clinton serving Satan when he played around with Monica Lewinsky? Were the executives of Enron servig Satan when they screwed their employees out of their pensions? If these acts aren't examples of serving Satan, what acts are?

When I attended church (AoG - don't worry, I got better), I was taught that every act that was not an explicit act of worship of Jesus Christ was by default furthering Satan's power in the world.

By this particularly odious philosophy, pretty much anything could be defined as "serving Satan".

 

[SpuriusMaximus]

When I attended church (AoG - don't worry, I got better), I was taught that every act that was not an explicit act of worship of Jesus Christ was by default furthering Satan's power in the world.

By this particularly odious philosophy, pretty much anything could be defined as "serving Satan".

Interesting. By that kind of thinking it would follow that all Satan wants is for you to live your own life, fulfill your own needs, and just be yourself. Since, you know, doing that is "serving Satan." Remind me why he's the evil guy then, while the sadist PHB is the all-loving goodness?

 

[arthwollipot]

Interesting. By that kind of thinking it would follow that all Satan wants is for you to live your own life, fulfill your own needs, and just be yourself. Since, you know, doing that is "serving Satan." Remind me why he's the evil guy then, while the sadist PHB is the all-loving goodness?

You have nailed the essential absurdity of the position.

If I've read her right, Kurious_Kathy subscribes to this philosophy.

 

[Ethnikos]

Serve Satan?
...Wow, just wow.

Forsaking Jesus throws you into the waiting arms of Satan.

What does a "nice christian person" look like exactly?

Someone who looks like they are not in the habit of being cruel to people.
I know another set of twins who had a similar type of thing happen to. I knew them when they were kids because they were my best friends cousins. They looked identical when they were young and diverged as they got older. My advice is if you have twins, do not name them something like Cain and Abel. In both sets of twins, there seemed to be a built-in indicator to how they would turn out, in their names. Trying to be cute by having some sort of little word game in a pair of names is not that smart.

He probably grew some horns and hooves, his eyes started glowing red, and he had a maniacal laughter, too. You just knew he was straying from the Light by looking at him. Like Smeagol turning into Gollum. Right?

Not exactly. It was something that was quite striking when you saw them together.
I get your point, about looks though. Teb Bundy looked nice and fooled a lot of women.

 

[TimCallahan]

Forsaking Jesus throws you into the waiting arms of Satan.

Okay, this still leaves us with the same question: Does all wrong-doing amount to serving Satan, or do you mean something more specific by that phrase? I might also point out that your quote above could be used to cover those of us who are skeptical of your views. So, if I disagree with your conspiracy theories, am I "serving Satan"?

 

[Ethnikos]

Okay, this still leaves us with the same question: Does all wrong-doing amount to serving Satan, or do you mean something more specific by that phrase? I might also point out that your quote above could be used to cover those of us who are skeptical of your views. So, if I disagree with your conspiracy theories, am I "serving Satan"?

In the case of the twin, who I brought up earlier, I meant a self serving life that has no regard for the feelings of others, except for how you can use them to get what you want. That is the philosophy of Satan, and if you live that way, according to the philosophy of Satan, you are serving the purposes of Satan. Satan wants the maximum amount of people to follow him, and thus have an argument against God, that he should not be punished, since everyone else is just like him.

 

[Foster Zygote]

When I attended church (AoG - don't worry, I got better), I was taught that every act that was not an explicit act of worship of Jesus Christ was by default furthering Satan's power in the world.

By this particularly odious philosophy, pretty much anything could be defined as "serving Satan".

[Reverend Lovejoy] Oh, just about everything is a sin. Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically we're not allowed to go to the bathroom.[/Reverend Lovejoy]

 

[Stacy Head]

Yup, but as was pointed out to me by a young lady in another thread, Pope Ben administratively did away with limbo a couple of years ago:

The Pope did away with limbo? What shall we do at parties when someone gets the limbo stick out?

 

[TimCallahan]

What you have today are 501c3 churches who have signed contracts with the government to trade tax breaks for a certain amount of government controls. Only people dealing with a large amount of donations would make a deal like that. They are compromised organizations. Why do you think the government is so corrupt? It is that the churches agree not to get involved with "politics" which the government interprets to mean you can not criticize criminal politicians.

So this is your view of the separation of church and state? Shame on you!