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To: metmom
If sin hadn’t entered the world and corruption through sin...

Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid).

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973


690 posted on 01/06/2009 8:18:06 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman; Alamo-Girl; betty boop

Some of Heinlin’s earlier works remain among my all-time favorites. It was, indeed, sad to read Heinlein’s last several works, and to observe the obvious progressive deterioration of a once-fine mind...


691 posted on 01/06/2009 8:26:22 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: Coyoteman

You have no right to define *sin*. That’s a religious term and only people who are religious or theists get to define their terms.

Just like evos say that only scientists can define *theory* as scientists use it and that anyone else’s attempts to define theory in that way is invalid.

So I propose that, not being qualified to define religious terms, by default your definition of *sin* is invalid.


697 posted on 01/06/2009 8:46:59 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Coyoteman; metmom

That quoting of Heinlein is lightweight, beyond goofy and into bizarre yote, about about as bizarre as some of your other fetishes.


752 posted on 01/06/2009 11:14:26 AM PST by valkyry1
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