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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The New Testament addresses this pretty directly.  It seems like 3/4 of the people who follow Jesus are repentant prostitutes and tax collectors.  And there is a pretty famous parable about a man who leaves his father, goes out and and does a ton of terrible things, then returns repentant and is totally forgiven.  The father in that story is supposed to be God, and he seems pretty happy to see the son who left and returned.

So, I am going to say that doing wrong, recognizing that wrong, humbling yourself and asking forgiveness is “better” then walking around feeling morally superior to everyone else.  
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Oh.. and ah.. First of all where did you get the statistics? With such a precision to it! Which by all measures seems like total BS and is and most likely was a total BS.

That pretty famous parable you are referring to is as story of Prodigal Son I assume, who did not do any tons of terrible things, he simply spent his father fortune and came back and his father forgave him. Not that I am trying to be superior but honestly this story is teaching many things and it is not addressing per se most of the kind of sins people commit. It was more of a story about the loving and kind father then your average sinner story. But then again, not to sin with arrogance, I think you try the best point you could find so I take it. [/quote]

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