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To: Irenic
I'm gonna give smoking a pass, here. I don't indulge myself, except for a very rare celebratory cigar, but I cannot see that it has moral significance.

Abuse of smoking might be a sin because the body is God's temple (1 Corinthians 6:19), so a pack a day-er might be indulging in sin. However, smoking does not affect your mental make-up like alcohol, and drugs, and even alcohol, taken in moderation is not harmful to the body. So, I'm giving it a pass, too.

Now I might be wrong, but frankly, I've got much more serious sins to account for. Thankfully, they are under the blood. But I can't worry about those two.

22 posted on 11/01/2013 8:46:40 AM PDT by chesley
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To: chesley

I imagine most any indulgence carried to extreme would be a sin. I won’t be throwing stones anytime soon.


34 posted on 11/01/2013 8:56:04 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: chesley

As Freud once said, “Sometimes a good cigar is only a cigar.” A lot of tattoos are, or used to be, only the remnant of an out of control night in Tijuana. A reminder of something you can’t remember.


55 posted on 11/01/2013 9:06:22 AM PDT by Old North State
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