After all, you're hurting the most righteous servants of God of all: The music industry. Oh yeah and it's stealing. and from what people tell me, that's a sin. Sounds awful sinful to me. Is it?
BTW, that's right. I get all my religious guidance from yahoo! answers.
2006-08-29 16:38:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is stealing. Pure and simple.
2006-08-29 16:41:32 · answer #1 · answered by Pablito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
All this talk about sin sounds like a bunch of nonsense to me.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-02 07:40:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While its tempting to steal from big corporation, who you know is stealing from the artists and their audience, its still ethically wrong.
Sinful? Well "sin" only applies if you subscribe to a religious doctrine that embraces the concept of "sin". If you don't have that leap of faith, then sin doesn't apply to you.
However, morals and ethics have nothing to do with religion. That's obvious. It does apply to how you view yourself as a human being and what character you have. You cannot expect honesty and truth in your life if you are a thief.
But if this isn't an issue for you, then by all means, give yourself permission to steal. In the end, you are the one who has to live with yourself, not me, or any one else.
2006-08-29 23:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're totally confusing between legality and morality . It's illegal but not necessarily sinful or morally bad. Or better yet, ethically bad. To get your religious guidance from yahoo answers is irresponsible. This is not a religious sect nor a true body of knowledge. They are merely opinions sometimes substantiated by facts and research. But nonetheless, should be taken as such. Surely, you have the capacity to distinguish the difference and the fore thought to question. the reliability.
2006-08-29 23:45:51 · answer #4 · answered by rosieC 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, theft is a sin. It doesn't matter from whom you steal. It is about the clarity of your own soul. Those of the music industry will have to give an accounting before God as you will as well.
2006-08-29 23:42:52 · answer #5 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't consider pop singers, country singers, rappers, hip hoppers to be "righteous servants of God."
Get your "religious guidance" from somewhere other than these morons on Yahoo Answers.
2006-08-29 23:47:37 · answer #6 · answered by Leif Ericson 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand that the music industry steals the songs from the musicians for a pittance. So who's the biggest thief?
2006-08-29 23:42:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read Matthew 17:24-27
The Temple Tax
24After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, "Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax[b]?"
25"Yes, he does," he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. "What do you think, Simon?" he asked. "From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own sons or from others?"
26"From others," Peter answered.
"Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him. 27"But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours."
As Gods people we are foreigners on earth because our loyalty is always to the real king - Jesus. Still we have to cooperate with the authorities and be responsible citizens. An ambassador to nother country keeps local laws in order to represent well the one who sent him. We are Christs ambassadors.
2006-08-29 23:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by JasonLee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes actually it is. You must obey the laws of the governing authorities, so yes it is a sin that most of us pass off and say it is not a sin, good question
2006-08-29 23:41:22 · answer #9 · answered by Hafeman 5000 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stealing is a sin in any religion.
2006-08-29 23:49:55 · answer #10 · answered by Muslim 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It's stealing.
2006-08-29 23:44:09 · answer #11 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋