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And then Jesus showed up and said, and I quote, "...if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell." But in Aramaic, I guess.
Problem with sexy ladies? Not their problem.
Gouging you eye is exactly quitting gym in this context. If going so specific place causes you to stumble, don't go to that place.
To be fair, he said they would be thrown to the Valley of Hinnom. Not the nicest of places, sure, but not literally a fiery hell.
Dude, just go home and have a wank like a normal weirdo.
He most likely does and posting to social media is his way to pay penance and make himself feel superior to his peers.
He's gotta make sure you know the real villain!
It's not his wandering eyes, it's the immodest harlots not following rules.
I feel like I read something about plucking out wandering eyes... Hmm must be from some obscure atheist text.
Well that’s their mental back handspring with a twist they do: wandering eyes are sinful, and they are good Christians, they don’t want their eyes to wander because, again, they’re “good Christians.” So if they don’t want their eyes to wander, and god doesn’t want their eyes to wander, it’s the filthy harlots in their “immodest dress” that are the problem.
Not the religion that has brainwashed them into thinking human sexuality is perverse and made them have full on diarrhea mouth.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Or just jerk off before you go to the gym
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.
before i cave in
Yikes.
Cave into what? Dude saw a woman in yoga pants, and now he has to go on a rape rampage? Wtf?
Gross regardless but to be completely fair “cave in” within a conservative Christian context could literally mean just a side glance to get a good look at them
Could literally mean anything from having lusty thoughts to full-blown rape. This is one of those hope for the best kind of situations, but if he's gonna tell us - even via ambiguous language - that he's a threat to the safety of women around him, then it's best to believe him.
I dunno, they get up to some creepy shit. Have you read their Bible? It’s pretty fucked up.
Oh yes i have, my point is still valid that he might mean something far more innocent than what it sounds like.
The Lord works in [ INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE DUE TO LEGAL SETTLEMENT OF MULTIPLE CHILD SEX ABUSE LAWSUITS ] ways.
These guys believe that the only way morality happens is if big Sky Daddy is watching them at all times with threats of terrible punishment. It’s why they literally don’t understand how non-Christians can be moral people.
While I think the whole thing is yikes, I think in this instance he’s referring to caving in to masturbation/porn, not rape… I hope.
Hopefully, it just sound icky
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.
"Before I cave in"??? Bro just masturbate
That would be caving in to these people.
"Oh, my God, that's disgusting! Women dressing immodestly? Where? Where were they at? The gym? Which one, there’s so many!"
The really insidious part of the Christian mythology is that it takes your most basic dive as a species to procreate and tells you it's a sin. And of course, the only cure for that sin is the church that told you it is a sin.
"cave in"
Like are we talking flirting or rape? Or masturbation?
Do we have to call the authorities (Jesus) on his ass?
Clearly before he stares at them and gets a boner that's difficult to hide.
"before i cave in" get this man on a list before he hurts someone fr
He's talking about things like lust, or masturbation, not assaulting someone. Thoughts that you consider normal, are things that religious people struggle with.
If thy right eye offend thee, bitch at strangers, for it is their fault for making you want to sin and not your fault for sinning
---Republican Matthew, 5:29-30
My thoughts are that this is bait primarily.
At least he's not putting the blame on the others.
It's fine if you want to go somewhere modest, just don't make other people dress modest because you want to go there.
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.
Only pray for so long before you cave into what, BigAshesive90210? Should we alert the authorities?
The zealot is ridiculous of course, but some people really try too hard showing off their body, both genders. Just wear some fucking pants please I don’t want to use a machine you just had jammed up your asscrack no matter how "well" you wiped it down
is your gym full of pants-less meat-bros? which gym is that.. for the curious?
Globo gym
Idea for gyms: sell horse-blinders. Call them "mind-your-own-business glasses", or MYOB glasses for short.
I say this as an atheist, this man would do well by reading Matthew 18:9.
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.