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Is Pleasure a Sin?

By Maureen Dowd
Posted: June 6, 2012.
Published: June 5, 2012.

Print: The New York Times

In its jihad on nuns, the Vatican shows no mercy to a Sister of Mercy.

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The vatican is irrelevant.  Those elderly virgins couldn’t moralize their way out of a paper bag full of naked children.

posted on June 7, 2012
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No. I don’t believe so.

posted on June 11, 2012
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3. motherearth

No one has the right to call this action a sin, when it is a personal preference. That’s like saying is it a sin to not wear underwear. A sin is only a sin, when you impose your thoughts on a person, or creature,  who thinks differently aka abuse, molestation, bestiality,  rape, etc. A person simply does not have to ask them self for permission. If someone enjoys, lets say a vibrator, that’s a personal choice. But if they forced this action on anyone else, I would say it’s a sin. I am Atheist so I am responding on knowledge I gained in 30 years of A practicing Roman Catholic.

posted on June 14, 2012
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‘Sin’ is a word without meaning to the non-religious.  Period.

posted on June 15, 2012
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Strange! Why it is a sin while sex is just the basic instinct. A sin is when we do harm others… while self-pleasure is not.

posted on June 17, 2012
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