but they're just doing it in a silly way that makes them look stupid.

Gud, you forgot hateful and judgmental.

None of which are sins.

I think.

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It says that everyone has broken the 1st Commandment, so if you say you haven't then you're braking the 9th Commandment.

Boy there's just no winning with this God. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry.

So, a whole culture of people who never get to meetings on time? When I'm a god, Thou shalt not fuck around with other people's time will be a commandment.

Right before If thou art a drycleaner, thou shalt never charge more than $5 for cleaning a single winter coat.

Perhaps I am a bit of a micro-manager. But, I'm told a lot of people like that in a god.

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There's this whole nasty little sub-philosophy amongst some fundies and some evangelicals that equates holding anything important with idolatry.

Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.

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So by being a Pagan and admitting to having other gods before Him, I'm actually coming out ahead because at least I was honest about it? Score!

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Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.

Wow, what a perfect recipe for creepy obsessive-compulsive guilt-ridden craziness. I'm now incredibly grateful that my own CCD teachers were just inept, not actively malign.

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Perhaps I am a bit of a micro-manager. But, I'm told a lot of people like that in a god.

It could work, but you'd need more than two tablets for all the commandments.

I think the Church of DX (reformed) commandment list would start off with thou shalt learn to count. The only reason I mention it is that Incompetent Sales Manager sent Prospective Customer Guy an email saying that I would forward PCG the product specs for "approximately 300 products." The list of products ISM sent to me to prepare specs for had 129 products, which is only "approximately 300" if your other choice is a thousand or so.

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Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.

Oh, were you confirmed Catholic, Fred, or in another tradition? I don't know why, but it helps to know this might not just be a Protestant problem.

So by being a Pagan and admitting to having other gods before Him, I'm actually coming out ahead because at least I was honest about it? Score!

Nope, sorry (I am trying to figure out how to make a nasty buzzer sound come across in letters, but Eeeeeeeeeehndt is the best I can come up with).

The point, and this is the part where I was saying I agree, is there is just the law. The commandments make up the one law. If I've broken a part of the law, I've broken the law. Period. That's the part I take to. There is no good enough. It's not about me being good enough. Alone, I can't be. That doesn't mean I am not supposed to be, but that doesn't tear down the wall I've put between myself and G-d, through complete fault of my own.

But in practice, it sometimes then all devolves into foolishness, because people try to make other people sweat whichever commandment is their pet one. Or we get the usual Roman Catholic vs. Protestant foolishness, about faith v. works, where (imo) hard-liners on both extremes miss the point, which is, real faith will cause a regeneration--a death to my life in which I was enslaved to sin, and a life in which by nature (because I'm dead to sin and alive to Christ) my works will be good. The hardliners on one side, hear salvation by faith alone, but many seem to forget about working out that salvation in fear and trembling over the course of a lifetime, and that faith without works is dead. The hardliners on the other side know that faith without works is dead, but many seem to think it is all about works, as if grace if ever something one can earn. If it is earned, it's not grace.

Sorry. t /issues

Off to pick up the rugrats, take 'em out to lunch, and conquer the Federal Government. When come back, will bring pie.

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Oh, I was taught in confirmation class (junior high school age) that you broke the 1st if you spent any time not thinking about God.

Do you mean, like, actively thinking about God? Even when asleep? You dream of a llama on a pogo stick instead of God and you go to hell?

Because, I'm sayin', I don't even think about porn 24/7.

And fantastic, I'm exporting a huge file and somebody came up behind me when I couldn't get my browser to minimize. Time to go to lunch, I think, and pick back up when the damn file finishes exporting.

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