Comments on: Sin Yourself Righteous! http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/ Promoting rational thought above dogma. Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: betterthangod http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/comment-page-1/#comment-242 betterthangod Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:01:38 +0000 http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/#comment-242 You wouldn't be claiming that the religious right can be hypocrites would you? How dare you! ;-) Seriously though, can you imagine the odds of an atheist being forgiven for such behaviour? If a christian politician breaks one of the commandments they have fallen from grace but can be forgiven if they apologise and ask for forgiveness and their fellow believers will pray for them and support them in their hour of need. Etcetera, etcetera If it was an atheist or a member of another religion the christians would say it was just another example of the immorality of the ungodly. You wouldn’t be claiming that the religious right can be hypocrites would you? How dare you! ;-) Seriously though, can you imagine the odds of an atheist being forgiven for such behaviour?
If a christian politician breaks one of the commandments they have fallen from grace but can be forgiven if they apologise and ask for forgiveness and their fellow believers will pray for them and support them in their hour of need. Etcetera, etcetera
If it was an atheist or a member of another religion the christians would say it was just another example of the immorality of the ungodly.

]]> By: Dan http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Dan Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:39:12 +0000 http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/#comment-240 LOL, Chris! I think you have a blockbuster on your hands! ;-) LOL, Chris! I think you have a blockbuster on your hands! ;-)

]]> By: Chris Henson http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Chris Henson Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:58 +0000 http://www.rationalitynow.com/blog/2009/07/02/sin-yourself-righteous/#comment-239 Each day seems to bring some new and fascinating tidbit from Mark Sanford. The women he's touched inappropriately. The spiritual counselor how oversaw one of his encounters with Maria [so THAT'S what we're calling a threesome these days!]. He can't shut up about it. And suddenly everything made sense to me. Mark Sanford is a narcissist. I think he has cast himself in a movie — a political romantic comedy. As the protagonist, he's fallen from grace spectacularly. But, instead of resigning from office, as he "intended" to do, he now says God has decided that his punishment should be to remain governor of South Carolina and by-golly save the state from the mess it's in. So now all he has to do is publicly and kindly turn his back on his soul-mate mistress ["Maria, you'll find your soul mate. After all, I found mine."] and try like hell to fall back in love with his wife. She's already admitted she can forgive him. They will reconcile just before Christmas in 2011. There will be a very public "you had me at 'hello'" scene and a beautiful tree in the background and candles. A warm light will glow on the Nativity set his grandfather carved by hand. A child will sing a sweet carol in the snow. The nation will weep. Then, cue the soft, but patriotic music that signifies that Sanford has truly changed and, next thing you know, our good Christian hero will be cheered into the White House. Working title: "The Forgiven One." Yep, narcissist. And I should know. I'm the guy who's posting a comment to an article that he's mentioned in. And deep down, don't we narcissists really just need to take a good look at ourselves? Each day seems to bring some new and fascinating tidbit from Mark Sanford. The women he’s touched inappropriately. The spiritual counselor how oversaw one of his encounters with Maria [so THAT'S what we're calling a threesome these days!]. He can’t shut up about it. And suddenly everything made sense to me. Mark Sanford is a narcissist.

I think he has cast himself in a movie — a political romantic comedy. As the protagonist, he’s fallen from grace spectacularly. But, instead of resigning from office, as he “intended” to do, he now says God has decided that his punishment should be to remain governor of South Carolina and by-golly save the state from the mess it’s in.

So now all he has to do is publicly and kindly turn his back on his soul-mate mistress ["Maria, you'll find your soul mate. After all, I found mine."] and try like hell to fall back in love with his wife. She’s already admitted she can forgive him. They will reconcile just before Christmas in 2011. There will be a very public “you had me at ‘hello’” scene and a beautiful tree in the background and candles. A warm light will glow on the Nativity set his grandfather carved by hand. A child will sing a sweet carol in the snow. The nation will weep.

Then, cue the soft, but patriotic music that signifies that Sanford has truly changed and, next thing you know, our good Christian hero will be cheered into the White House. Working title: “The Forgiven One.”

Yep, narcissist. And I should know. I’m the guy who’s posting a comment to an article that he’s mentioned in. And deep down, don’t we narcissists really just need to take a good look at ourselves?

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