Anybody Religious?

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Anybody Religious?
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Wed, 03-10-2004 - 11:19pm
Religion was one particular reason that stopped me from taking my emotional affair to any other level. I mean I could micro-analyze my marriage and come up with reasons to justify cheating to my own self but could not justify it to God. I am supposed to “guard my modesty” in relation to my husband and I couldn’t bring myself to break that decree. I and MM belong to different faiths but for him it was the religious reason too that held him back. I and MM could generate heat in excess of couple of hundred degrees ..lol.. but it’s the religion besides our idiosyncratic personalities that wouldn’t let us do it.

I am curious to know how other board members (who consider themselves actively religious) handle the religious aspect that considers adultery a serious sin. Do you feel like a sinner and think that other areas of your life might be getting affected by the adultery act (they say people get punished in this world too besides in the other world)? Do you feel that your prayers work?

PG

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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 11:29am
Hey NRY, You go girl:):) She must have us confused, by the way abideth, I'm the one doing the blowing and it's my Doctor:):):)NMR
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 11:33am

nmr, you are cracking me up, girlfriend!!

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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 11:42am
Too funny, NMR! Sometimes I even get us confused.....but BTW, my MM is a doctor, too! See how I can get confused, too? LOL (He's just not my doctor....)

Thanks NMR & Gurl for making me laugh!

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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 11:47am
Any time, chickie:):) It's great with a doc they seem to know more about certain parts of a woman's body:):) I'm 45 years old and he has to be the best I've ever had and trust me I've circled the block a couple of times:) LOL! NMR
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:02pm
I love it when I can get a charge out of people! ROFLMAO....... NMR
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:06pm
LMAO, nomo!!
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:42pm
We got side tracked…back to the religious convo :)

"The answer lies in your own faith.."

MM is Christian. I am not. According to my faith:

Adultery is considered a sin that is punishable by death but similarly as in Christianity, it is forgivable if it’s not repeated. Secondly, there is nobody (unlike Jesus in Christianity) that has already paid for my sins…everybody starts with a clean slate and is answerable to God for his or her own actions…God keeps on guiding those who want to be guided but the ones that repeatedly ignore that “inner voice”, he leads them astray….As far as forgiveness is concerned, there are a few things that I have come to realize in my experience and what I have learnt, namely

1) People do get punished in this world namely the ones that God is trying to guide in this world but the ones who are completely astray remain oblivious to that….they either don’t get punished or they don’t realize that they have been punished

2) If somebody commits a sin knowing already what is right and what’s wrong have lesser chances of being completely forgiven as opposed to somebody who was always in the dark and then realized that what they were doing was wrong.

PG

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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:44pm
Just out of curiousity, what religion are you?
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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:47pm
I love you guys! I am so sad...didn't know I was as screwed up as I was until she told me. I'm going to lose sleep tonight (not that that's anything new). BTW, I thought there was only one person who was perfectly without sin.

Juliet, Gurl, and NMR...y'all are awesome!

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Thu, 03-11-2004 - 12:52pm
A religion that has a lot of pre-conceived notions attached to it and is widely misinterpreted or misunderstood.....yes you guessed it right!!

Islam

PG