Re:Personally... (Score 1)

Yup, you certainly hit it right on... Kinda. They're things that will happen to you as a human, and I'm not standing up for "religious control-freaks", but that's the religious point-from a view of christianity at least. You can try as much as you wan't to repress sin, it isn't going to go away of your own will. Committing an act of sin simply because it's your nature (try to stop sinning-by Gods standards, see if it can be pulled off for just *one* day), where pride doesn't rule in your heart, is just going to allow you to recognize that you fall short of the standard that *God* has set. I'll argue you here, they certainly *are* bad. There's nothing good that comes from sinning, and the more lost in sin that you are, the less you're able to see that with even the slightest bit of rationalizaiton. But, for a person who doesn't follow God, I'll say that I don't think it should be "control-freak" repressed, although I'll never say it's good. I think us "religious" folk fall short of this constantly: we should hold no expectation whatsoever for a nonbeliever not to sin. Check 1 cor 5:9,10 - we'd have to *leave this world* to find someone like that. My thoughts are that I very much so resent seeing people fall into sin, especially knowingly and just disregarding God altogether, but that's the channel by which we all have to realize our need for God. Basically, when everything goes down the drain and the sin we've built our life on causes us something so drastic as to just want to die and have it be over with, that's a chance to repent of that sin and decide to follow God (not just stop that sin. If adultry has caused divorce and life seems to suck- ceasing that adultry isn't going to do anything long term, we'd have to actually commit to living the way God's designed things.) The control-freak religious thing is garbage, if you really are managing to keep sin to a minimal, but you're still not *following* God, that's some awful deception, cause it'll be that much harder to easily recognize your need for *God*, and not simply a need for less sin. The fruit of sin is death - so when our pride, our greed, our lusts, etc. all take our life downhill and we hit bottom, it's just a great oppurtunity to realize that you don't have things in order, and you don't have the answers. Control-freaking denies that oppurtunity in my mind, if it works on someone at least.