SIN

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Today I ordered a Double Beef with Bacon burger from Macca's and I must say that I see why Muslims don't like pork or bacon very much. The bacon in that was way too oily. The salt content was fine and it surprisingly didn't stink like many other pork products I have seen and tried (often by accident) and now I am proud to announce that I just ate a pork product on purpose.

As my atheist pride continues I wonder what other "sins" according to your "ex-religion" people have committed are you proud of committing?

Here's a short list of some of the "sins" I am proud to have committed: Eaten pork Several times before prayed namaz with devilish tattoo on and no wazoo Wrote FUCK YOU inside the mosque on the day of my grandmother's funeral when I got angry Ripped trees apart saying things like "GOD GO TO HELL!" Swearing loudly in the mosque Carrying a plastic boomerang in the mosque Once the daughter of the Amil saab pissed me off significantly to the extent I grabbed her hair and punched her several times in the face Attempting to choke people in the mosque who pissed me off When the Amil saab was the one who used to yell a lot and didn't know any English (this was before the cool Amil saab series came in) I used to refer to him as a loud bum and an ass Breaking other peoples' namaz When my little brother was doing rosa (fasting during Ramadan month) I managed to successfully coax him into eating chocolate Eaten with my left hand Refused namaq before meals Refused to sit in the taal with everyone else Dropped a few topis and siparahs and Quran copies on the ground and stomped on them Questioned and tested Allah Placed paper in the heaters hoping smoke or flames would eventually come out Mentioning that the prophet Muhammad and Allah are mentally ill Uninstalling and destroying the software mum had on her computer that used to blast the Azaan through the speakers at set intervals. She doesn't have that software anymore because it isn't compatible. Hitting my parents Throwing heavy furniture in the mosque Attempting to fiddle with the audio control system to shut it off (can't remember whether it worked or not) Leaving the Masjid much earlier than everyone else. "Swearing" and "blaspheming" Mentioning morning prayers in Madrassa and having the teacher think I am a Christian and the teacher said that this was a huge problem and must be dealt with. Hitting other children with their toys whenever they pissed me off and/or whenever they mentioned how sinful something is Placing an open bottle of methylated spirits in the mosque Misbehaving in Madrassa Going mad whenever my parents attempted to force me to go to Madrassa and eventually realizing I refuse to go Hitting people while they were doing namaz Waiting for someone to finish wazoo and then dirtying their clothesNote that most of the things I did to other people were because they had pissed me off in some way or another. I also need to note that a lot of these "sins" in the mosque were committed while I was still a Muslim and only a few were committed after becoming an atheist.

[DBK]

Stolen from the church collection plate!

Although considering the wealth of the catholic church, I see it as "liberating" the money.

[SchizoDeluxe]

Ate lobster, worked on a sunday and abused the name jesus and god numerous times :D

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Don't vegetarians eat fish? ;)

[Worldslaziestbusker]

Don't vegetarians eat fish? ;)

Fish and chipocrites.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Tried to eat meat that had been offered to idols (as forbidden in 1 Corinthians 8), but those bloody Hare Krishnas are veggoes!

Still looking for a decent Temple Of Baal BBQ Joint.But the meat may not have been accepted by the idols even though they were offered to them. So you still managed to eat meat that was offered to idols.

[Dave]

What if you had a steak in front of guy sebastion, would that count Mr Black?:p

[Dave]

@Dave: Guy Sebastian would lose, because I'd nick the food while he was saying grace!

(I know that doesn't answer the question, but seriously, does he look like he's been refusing tucker when offered?)

You are right on the money there. It really doesn't look like he has been missing out on anyhing at all. Besides buddah has held the title of fattest idol for too long now and I wish guy all the best at taking the title for himself away from our eastern friend.

[c2009]

Taken the name of God/Jebus in the name
Blasphemed the "Holy" Spirit
Various bizarre sinful thoughts (yay thoughtcrime!)
Probably a whole list of others I can't think of.

[eclectic]

I have denied the holy spirit!

I think though that some people find religion appealing BECAUSE of sin - it makes doing fun things somehow extra fun by making them 'sinful'. At the age of 11 or 12 one of the things that turned me away from xianity was that I didn't understand why pre-marital sex was a sin. It isn't immoral in any rational way, so why is it a sin? I may have sinned numerous times in numerous ways as far as the church is concerned, but I did it all without any pleasure from the fact that it was a sin.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

They probably signed up because of all the fighting. I'm pretty sure there are many people who love to fight.

[rainbowings15]

I have never sinned...

[wearestardust]

Today I ordered a Double Beef with Bacon burger from Macca's and I must say that I see why Muslims don't like pork or bacon very much. The bacon in that was way too oily. The salt content was fine and it surprisingly didn't stink like many other pork products I have seen and tried (often by accident) and now I am proud to announce that I just ate a pork product on purpose.

I don't understand. You are coming from a cognitive position that is completely alien to me. The following pretty much explains my view:

"Homer Simpson: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?

Lisa Simpson: No.

Homer Simpson: Ham?

Lisa Simpson: No.

Homer Simpson: Pork chops?

Lisa Simpson: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!

Homer Simpson: [Chuckles] Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

From The Simpsons episode, "Lisa The Vegetarian"

I like steak provided it's actually cooked and not bleeding profusely all over the plate. But I can take or leave hamburger. I love fried chicken, rotisserie chicken and chicken salad that's not creamy, but really when it comes right down to it, chicken is chicken is chicken. I think most people would have a hard time picking out what piece of chicken meat was fried, baked or rotisseried if the skin was taken off and you only had a huge chunk of the meat to pick from. But the pig really is a wonderful, magical animal. I mean, honesty, lay down a piece of bacon, a piece of ham and a pork chop in front of a person who didn't know any better and try to convince them that meat all came from the same animal. I think it's very possible that you'd get a reaction similar to Homer Simpson's. "
the above from here:http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/20874#

As for sin: my wife and I called our car "the golden calf". That was, actually,when we were happy clappers. Until one of the elders asked us to stop.

Actually that car was continually smited (smote?) for the ten years we had it. Or, alternatively, it was a piece of junk. The experience of other owners of '93 Magna owners who did not blaspheme leads me to think the latter.

Edit: oh, and when there's a coffee run happening I usually ask for a flat white large enough to offend the god of the old testament.

[deesl4e]

Too many to mention. However one that springd to mind was whenI was at school. It was a private Catholic school in Melbourne and we used to duck out of the school grounds for a smoke during the lunch break. Well a good hiding spot was at a Church just nearby. One time I needed a keak so relieved myself on the walls of the church. As I was doing so some old fart walked past and busted me pissing on a churh wall with a smoke hanging out of my mouth. He carried on and demanded to know my name and would report me to the principle. Gave him a false name ofcourse ( some one who had already lest the school ). Well what a song and dance erupted the next day. Won't bore you with anymore details but suffice to say if you offend a catholic piss on his church.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Won't bore you with anymore details but suffice to say if you offend a catholic piss on his church.Thou shalt be wary of the Wrath of the LAW

[deesl4e]

Thou shalt be wary of the Wrath of the LAW

Crocodile. I am curious about one thing. You mentioned that you asid the prophet Mohommad was mentally ill but I just wonder as to wether or not he could be classified as a pedophile. I know he was alleged to have had a few wives and that his favourite was this Fatima chick whom he married when she was at the succulent nice well matured ripe age of 9.:p Were the others as young as this Fatima or even younger? I hope none of them ever reached puberty.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Crocodile. I am curious about one thing. You mentioned that you asid the prophet Mohommad was mentally ill but I just wonder as to wether or not he could be classified as a pedophile. I know he was alleged to have had a few wives and that his favourite was this Fatima chick whom he married when she was at the succulent nice well matured ripe age of 9.:p Were the others as young as this Fatima or even younger? I hope none of them ever reached puberty.I'm honestly not 100% sure but yes I do know people used to get married at 8+ in the Quran and it does mention Muhammad had this thing about children (can't remember exactly) so perhaps he was a pedo.

[_RAAF_Stupot]

Carrying a plastic boomerang in the mosque

What's wrong with that?

BTW: I'm sure you know that one should never base dietary decisions on what may be found at McDonalds. They stuff everything up.

On a serious note, do you ever find pork / bacon / ham etc etc 'distasteful' as baggage from the way you were brought up. What I mean is, does the earlier religious prohibition on pork make you turn your nose up at it as food now?

[AWarGuy]

My sins:

Eating Meat alot
Swearing
Hitting My Sister
Calling her an ignorant bitch
Arguing in Christian Chat rooms
Arguing with (xtians) people for fun
Throwing the Eucharist bread on the ground during mass
Going to a Catholic school
Oh and...
Being an Atheist xD
Haha my WHOLE list would take up pages xD

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

What's wrong with that?

BTW: I'm sure you know that one should never base dietary decisions on what may be found at McDonalds. They stuff everything up.

On a serious note, do you ever find pork / bacon / ham etc etc 'distasteful' as baggage from the way you were brought up. What I mean is, does the earlier religious prohibition on pork make you turn your nose up at it as food now?Not really. I must say the ones at Macca's were OK actually they just need a little less oil.

My sins:

Eating Meat alot
Swearing
Hitting My Sister
Calling her an ignorant bitch
Arguing in Christian Chat rooms
Arguing with (xtians) people for fun
Throwing the Eucharist bread on the ground during mass
Going to a Catholic school
Oh and...
Being an Atheist xD
Haha my WHOLE list would take up pages xDNice. :cool:

[atheist_angel]

Being born, for starters. That too is a sin, you know. :rolleyes:

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Decided to do a little more "sinning" today. I ate more bacon. And this time it wasn't so oily and stinky. :D

Note that I was eating in a rather open environment.

[atheist_angel]

Oh yeah, I drink coffee or tea, daily. :o

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Arguing in Christian Chat rooms
Arguing with (xtians) people for funWhich chat rooms? ;)
Another one is mucking around with Christian websites. They are easy to play with when they allow HTML and CSS and Javascript in their (unmoderated) guestbooks...

[Praxis]

I "live in sin" with my wonderful partner.

I have had a truckload of sex outside marriage - for RECREATION not procreation :D

I was on the Pill for 16 years.

I have had a termination.

When I was little girl in Catlick school, I used to make up "sins" so I had something to "confess" at our weekly confession session. Even at the age of 7 or 8 I could see the stupidity of this. Lying is a sin, so each week I'd lie about sins I'd supposedly committed, thereby giving me something "legit" to confess the next week, as long as I kept on lying. The unending paradox. The fun never stops when you're Catholic :rolleyes:

Good going on the pork, crocodile. Bacon has never appealed to me much, and I never have it in burgers, but I really do love a nice, juicy pork roast (minus the fat) with gravy. Mmmmmmm - pork :D

[wolty]

Eaten meat on Good Friday. That is apparently quite bad from what I hear. Done most of the others as well.:D

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

In Islam they believe there is one farishta on each shoulder. One records all the good things you have done and one records all the bad things you have done. I have hit my shoulders bloody hard several times with my hands on purpose.

[rainbowings15]

Eaten meat on Good Friday. That is apparently quite bad from what I hear. Done most of the others as well.:D

Well that certainly seals the deal for all the humans alive well before christ ie early homo sapiens, wouldn't have had a snowballs chance in hell they'd get a look in to heaven. Not only did they not believe in the one true god/jesus they ate meat on good friday and the good and bad emotional credit crunchers on each shoulder didn't get salt tipped on them for good luck while not stepping under a ladder and crossing them selves!

Oh, and what about the blarney stone! I mean the poor buggers! Good thing we know the tricks to stay in gods good books. A bit anal, but hey, you can't choose your god right?:eek:

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Not sure whether or not this can be considered a sin - but I have the Safe Search set to the Off position. Particularly helpful when searching for images. It makes the searches faster and more enjoyable.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Nope. I use Opera for browsing.

[robertkd]

Nah firefox or safari ;)

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Opera is a nice peaceful browser. Unlike the other false browsers. ;)

[hmn]

My brother is gay and he joined the Mormons, hehe, they had no clue. When he left they wouldn't stop knocking on our door to get him back. If only they knew, they wouldn't have come anywhere near our house.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Well I suppose it is best to let the Morons figure it out themselves. Now that's classic sin. :D

[hmn]

I kept telling my brother next time they come to the door just yell in their face "I'M GAY" I bet they would've stopped bothering him then, lol.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I would have told your brother to perform acts of sodomy in front of them.

[Lapin]

I confess to wearing clothing woven from two types of material as forbidden in Leviticus 19. Hey, notice how god told Moses vitally important stuff like 'Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk' but completely left out obvious stuff like do not treat other people as property! :confused:

[atheist_angel]

I confess to wearing clothing woven from two types of material as forbidden in Leviticus 19. Hey, notice how god told Moses vitally important stuff like 'Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk' but completely left out obvious stuff like do not treat other people as property! :confused:
Oh yes. That reminds me of another sin that I have committed.

I'm guilty of cheeseburger consumption... On multiple counts.

[AngryAtheist]

I have one - I once stole a bible :D

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

When I was little girl in Catlick school, I used to make up "sins" so I had something to "confess" at our weekly confession session. Even at the age of 7 or 8 I could see the stupidity of this. Lying is a sin, so each week I'd lie about sins I'd supposedly committed, thereby giving me something "legit" to confess the next week, as long as I kept on lying. The unending paradox. The fun never stops when you're Catholic :rolleyes:Oh Father, I confess that I am claustrophobic.

[Duckie]

Ate meat on Good Friday, much to the dismay of my mum! :D

[two dogs]

Ate meat on Good Friday, much to the dismay of my mum! :D
I could never understand why adherents of this notion are expected to ingest the body, and imbibe the blood, of Jesus, every Sunday, but are restricted from eating non-human meat (apparently the flesh of fish is not meat) on one particular Friday each year, whose date is arrived at by some arcane formula?

[two dogs]

I believe that my greatest sin occured at the celebratory dinner following my confirmation into the Anglican church (I think I was around 10/11 years of age). Whilst seated around a large table with the other confirmees, and the local priest, I was asked by the Bishop of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn to say grace.

That's something our family didn't do, and so I recited the only version of grace I'd ever heard, viz.:Mabel, Mabel,
'round the table,
get your guts full,
while you're able.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I remember a long time ago I got fed up with Allah for a while and decided to make my own god (for some reason I remember calling him "demoguy" because I first saw the character of inspiration in a demonstration of one of the levels inside the game Flashback) and "worshipped" him to my hearts content. In effect I guess I made up my own religion against Islam then. Hey - I was worshipping an idol.

[Annie]

Although I was raised Catholic, I failed. I thought the whole story a croc from day one. I guess the weirdest thing i did was contriving all sorts of weird and wonderful sins to confess in the confessional which i could then be absolved from. One of those said sins was lieing. (WTF!!)

[Fearless]

Although I was raised Catholic, I failed. I thought the whole story a croc from day one. I guess the weirdest thing i did was contriving all sorts of weird and wonderful sins to confess in the confessional which i could then be absolved from. One of those said sins was lieing. (WTF!!)

I don't see it as failing at all... you had little choice by the sounds by being born and raised into religion. You experienced the religion first hand and the web of lies and the scaremonger tactics adopted to hook the unsuspecting victim? You probably would have tried to make sense of it? (as expected) and to not be shunned but seemingly couldn't? instead waking up to what your brain was able to shake itself free from... nonsense!

Sounds like a success if you ask me ;)

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

At least she committed some classic sin. :D

[c2009]

Although I was raised Catholic, I failed. I thought the whole story a croc from day one. I guess the weirdest thing i did was contriving all sorts of weird and wonderful sins to confess in the confessional which i could then be absolved from. One of those said sins was lieing. (WTF!!)

As Fearless said, I'd call that (failing to believe in catholicism) a success, not a failure.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

After reading Annie's last post in this thread a few times I realize she meant that she failed as a catholic but yes as Fearless and c2009 said you did not fail as an atheist here.

[deesl4e]

Although I was raised Catholic, I failed. I thought the whole story a croc from day one. I guess the weirdest thing i did was contriving all sorts of weird and wonderful sins to confess in the confessional which i could then be absolved from. One of those said sins was lieing. (WTF!!)

The catholic church is one of the great breeding grounds for atheism. You have not failed

[DelusionFreeGirl]

Visiting friend with computer. Not just a friend coz he’s got a computer. He has other things too :D So, travels interruptus! I always found the ‘sin’ list from religions to be really helpful. Might not have thought of some if it wasn’t for them. Tick yes to the ones that look like harmless fun and don’t do those hurtful to others. Simple, and it saves time having to find them! Absolutely invaluable to a kid. Took me a while to work out they were right about the meat one, only for the wrong reasons. :) And, Oh!, Skepticus….hon…..maybe the blind ‘sin’ is true. Travels away! DFG

[c2009]

You have to wonder if religion had its roots in something like that, as fables told to get kids to behave. Eventually over time, it has been retained into adulthood, because of its perceived usefulness as a reference point. Eventually some folks realised the power they could gain from such fables and elevated the God figure to some almighty "perfect" figure so that there'd be no questions on their authority.

Just a thought.

[atheist_angel]

They still are fables. Religion is basically a meme that grew and evolved giving birth to sub memes when split off from the parent meme and started it's own evolutionary path and so on.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Just remember: sin is nothing to be ashamed of.

[rainbowings15]

Mabel, Mabel,
'round the table,
get your guts full,
while you're able.


Very funny !!! :p My son did under arm farts to the Darth Vader song one christmas dinner. My partner and I just ctacked up laughing while our rellies were totally shocked. Went over like a lead balloon. ;):p

[Loki]

I destroy every gideons bible I find in a hotel room, though sometimes I just write a commentary

If I go to the convention and stay at the venue, will I find one in the bedside draw? Can I be converted at an Atheist convention?

Perhaps a mass action is required, pile all of them outside and destroy them (don't burn them, some of the worst crimes ever committed involved burning books)

[atheist_angel]

I have an Idea. The God Delusion in every hotel room...

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Or even special edition bibles with our own introduction and content advisory.

[Annie]

Ive stayed in hotels in the mid east, norway, uk, ireland, nz, germany and the u.s. and there wasnt a spook book in any of them. it seems to be an embarrassing legacy of ignorance which is still alive down under.:(