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A Thanksgiving Story About One of Those 47-Percenters

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Jolo530911/22/2012 1:52:22 pm PST

re: #112 calochortus

I don’t see it because we have no evidence that it is true. It could be. But he may also be using a conventional claim of sinning against God to express his personal guilt. I’ve made some “transgressions” over the years, fortunately pretty minor ones, but I still feel bad when I think about the stupid, cruel remark I made to someone when I was 12 or 13. It’s human nature.

If this guy uses his religion to deal with something he feels bad about, I’m not going to judge him. If he feels bad because he skipped church or wore clothing made of a linen/wool blend-in other words, violated a strictly religious rule without a real-world consequence, or if we knew his religious belief intensified his guilt, then I’d agree with you.

From the original article

He said years ago he’d done something bad that he felt “made the Lord angry”, and while he’d tried to make up for it and never repeated the mistake, he often felt like his life just wasn’t worth living.