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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Jim S who wrote (874)9/14/2006 5:52:37 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
Define your terms. What's "sin?" How do you know?

Hmmmmm.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I may have forgotten the sin list. And, as I was reminded, there are lots of different sin lists. But what I had in mind when I posted that was the common "secular" sin list, thinks like murder, assault, theft, fraud, and the like, things that are subsumed under the general notion that it's "sinful" to harm other people. My own framework sees "sin" from a secular, libertarian perspective.

Religion has utility in two ways. The first is that it makes harming other people sinful and the second that it is comforting to believers in trying times. The latter is of value to the individual. The former provides the primary value to society, not necessarily net value, but value nonetheless.
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