I think that the idea of sin exists only to put pressure on people to behave/act according to the wishes of religious leaders. The more things you make them feel guilty for doing, the more control you have over them. Otherwise, when I think about it, it would seem to be idiotic for God to be like 'here, you have these cravings, don't act on them.' So yes, I'm going to sin, but it's like drinking: I'm going to do it responsibly.

That's a topic that actually creates a lot of atheists. Obsessive anti-masturbation and shaming because of it caused us both to doubt when we were Morning (although it was not what made us stop believing). I know several atheist former Mormons who stopped believing because of the faith's abusive treatment of people who masturbate. I also watched an interview with Guillermo del Toro where he said that Catholicism's stance on masturbation led him to stop believing.

Sin is an irrelevant concept to nearly everyone here. That said, why would anyone object to the quick stress relief that masturbation brings. Little wonder so many religious nut jobs are so sexually repressed and are a danger to so many people.

Religious people limit their thought process to only the border of what they are taught. They are told that they were designed with “animal” cravings and they must discipline themselves against such primitive desires. I know, I was religious for many years.

Those religous idiots consider a lot of thing to be sin. I don’t really pay much attention to them anyway as they are delusional. I have a very religous friend who considers cursing and watching porn to be very sinful but has been married 5 times to 5 different women. Go figure.

Because our system & cultural influence is based on Calvinism which is very restrictive. Other religions are not so.

The word Sin and the word God should be placed in their rightful place, "The World of Make Believe" because they are Man Made Names.

Sin or not, it clearly doesn't matter to people in here. Remember what app is this, right? ?

The idea of masturbation as a "sin" comes from the narrative of Onan in the book of Genesis. That same story is also the source of the prohibition against birth control in the Catholic church. God killed Onan because he "spilled his seed on the ground" rather than impregnate his brother's wife in accordance with some ancient pre-Moses law.

There is very little scriptural backing to a prohibition of masturbation aside from some verses taken out of context, like the story of Onan. The real reason behind it is control over people's (mostly women's) sexuality.

All those natural urges you feel are dirty and prove that you're not worthy of God's love, but he loves you anyway. Until you become your husband's property, then hit the sheets and start popping out more little believers, and no you don't have a right to refuse. Who do you think you are, a person?

As it seems, every pleasure is a sin. I think we better to be happy and go to hell.

You can make almost anything a sin by bending and stretching the various translations of the bible. Its a sin as it opposes the Catholic churches need for fodder in the middle ages. From there it morphed into the overarching Christians obsession with non guilty pleasures being evil. Their is a logic to most things defined as sin. Almost all are about control. Large scale religions gained secular power through control, most often of woman for the benefit of men. Look at the modern Quiverfull movement. Their God is simply a Trojan horse for their obsession with control and their faithfuls wish to either take advantage of that control, have no real say as they are born into it, or find its structure the only way for them to deal with their lives. People talk about context and the bible and it makes me laugh as outside of historical relevance context all depends on what one wants from the good book. Its a myth used as a tool for control of reality. So saying this is what it meant has as much relevance as I saying THIS is what it meant. It means what you want it too or not that is the essence of religion and dogma. Arguing it from a reasoned POV is folly. I stopped long ago trying to argue what the Bible means.

Religion is a control system just like government. Both were designed by power hungry people to con people into following rules they instituted. Religion uses God to scare people into following their rules with the threat of damnation in the afterlife for disobedience. Government uses police/courts to inflict damage onto those who do not agree with said rules of society which they installed without our personal consent. So the real question that needs to be asked...just who told you that you were a sinner or an outlaw? If you do not cause harm to another...why is something immoral or illegal?

Since heaven and hell don’t exist there’s no such thing as sin as that’s just something the religous invented to make people comply with their rules.

I can resist anything but temptation.

Be grateful for the experience of You and your opportunity to live, here, now-
God, really?

Who is this god lady you write about?

Sin comes from the original Greek meaning “to miss the mark” as in archery. So no, I don’t think masturbation is sin, it is just self-pleasuring which within certain limits is healthy and normal.

They believe that a man's seed is only to be used for procreation. Masturbation wastes your seed.

IMO, religions teach sin. Which means there is a antidote for this sin. They sell it. They are creating a market, that's all. Truth be told, since these pimps often live contrary to what they teach, they are in fact atheists themselves just making a living off of .

Sin only has meaning in the context of religion. No religion, no sin.

Religious people usually talk the most sh×t. Yet, it is they who get caught doing the sickest sh×t ever, like with child pornography, the men get caught in hotel rooms with underage boys, they cheat on their spouses, pay hookers for sex, etc.

They can't tell me what to do with my body!

In the Bible a woman is only one of two things: A virgin or an evil whore. Which is Bull!@#$

Shame, shame, shame.

This idea is for mind controlled people. A possibility of control over a large segment of the population.