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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

So, I was raised in a fairly extreme and very hypocritical Christian household. I've been an Atheist for a long time, basically since I left after high school, but this only works if you view sin as only a positive act, a thing you do.

The way I was raised?

Not doing certain things can be just as sinful as doing certain things. Oh, you failed to sufficiently respect your parents? There's a commandment for that. Oh, you failed to prevent your sibling from doing something really stupid (even though you actually told him not to)? Failed to be your brother's keeper, etc.

Regarding laziness/sleep, specifically?

1st Timothy 5:8

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Proverbs 10:5

He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.

2nd Thessalonians 3:6,10

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. ... For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Again, I don't believe in any of this, but there are plenty, plenty of Christians and Pastors who will pick a few verses willy nilly, as I have just done, and design a whole sermon around them.

Point being: You can quite easily use the Bible to define sleeping all day as being sinful.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is there any activity or inactivity that cannot be defined as a sin via interpretation of the bible?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Probably not.

I was going to say 'prayer', but there are tons and tons of ways to do that wrong just according to most Christians I've known.

Don't pray for yourself, unless its for forgiveness! Wait, what you did is so bad we need the pastor or the whole church to pray for you!

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't that be sloth, though?

Edit: I hadn't expanded the image. I was clearly too slothful.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The 7 deadly sins ain't even from the Bible. They're from the Divine Comedy. They're like fanfic sins; non-canon.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ooo, now let's come up with the slash sins!

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

cringe is definitely one of them

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ngl sloth gotta be the best of the seven deadly sins

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

sloth is mid, it's not bad but it's also not good since you don't actually experience it

now lust and gluttony? fuck yeah

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

You really need all 3 to get to S-tier sinning imo

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, it's definitively lust, in my opinion anyway

[–] null@slrpnk.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depressed? No, I'm just P I O U S

[–] LordAmplifier@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

You can be both!

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[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Praying they sleep through election day.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm mostly so, sooo much worse in my dreams/nightmares. Dream me makes waking me look like a saint. A saint that has any idea at all what they are doing, and that's a big ask vs waking me.