Can you intentionally do nothing but fuck people over Monday through Saturday

[UnrepentantLiberal]

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and then be forgiven for the whole week on Sunday? Is this the way the people of the U.S. appear to the world? Do we pretend to be divine when we're actually evil?

[liberal N proud]

1. Ask for a pardon from the lord and all is forgiven.

That is the mentality of the indoctrinated.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. So it's a perpetual get out of hell free card.

Sweet.

[liberal N proud]

9. But you have to submit

And submit every week and on Wednesday too.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. Check your local blue laws.

[Tien1985]

3. What is this in

Response to?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

5. I just wanted to ask the flip side of the redemption question.

[tularetom]

4. All week? I couldn't even do it once without feeling like I was a total dickhead

And it isn't God's forgiveness I'd be concerned about, it's my own. I don't think God really gives a rats ass about me but I'd just feel like crap until I made it right.

Perhaps I just don't get how to be a good American.

[randome]

6. Consenting adults and all that, sure.

Oh...'fucking over'. I misread that. Sorry.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Your post may get locked because you're specifically looking for a religious angle,

not that I think it should be because it's a topic that is very relevant in today's world.

It happens to be a pet peeve of mine, the way the churches are used to launder guilt. We have community leaders who do unthinkable things in their communities, from fraud to conspiracy, and then they write a big check to their churches and for that they get to sit next to the people they've exploited.

One of the reasons I stopped going to church.

[yawnmaster]

8. You ask forgiveness on Sunday and are repentant and then stop fucking people over...

and yes, it is then likely that you are forgiven.

So many focus on the asking forgiveness part, but forget that one needs to actually repent.
Asking/confessing is just words without the repentance and following actions.

re·pent 1 (r-pnt)
v. re·pent·ed, re·pent·ing, re·pents
v.intr.
1. To feel remorse, contrition, or self-reproach for what one has done or failed to do; be contrite.
2. To feel such regret for past conduct as to change one's mind regarding it:

[seabeyond]

11. you are speaking religion. has to come from the heart when asking forgiveness.

so your scenario would not work. cannot purposely fuck people over all week, sincerely ask for forgiveness only to fuck them over the next week. not from the heart. is a fail

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Yup.

How conveeeeeeeeeeeenient.

[Violet_Crumble]

13. Locking

From the GD SOP: 'No posts about Israel/Palestine, religion, guns, showbiz, or sports unless there is really big news.'