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You may be finished here, but remember that you don’t have the standing to speak for me and declare unilaterally that “we” are.

Someone can also choose not to reply further and say so, but if you also argue something, as you did in your last post, you should not try to shut down replies to it.

Now I’ll say this, what is your interpretation of “sin,” as you call it. And do you believe in sin, period, without the scare quotes.

And did some of what your wrote just SEEM “angry,” or was it actually what it seemed, anger?

On the OP and how some reacted, I will say in response that I don’t believe people actually reacted in anger due to Bowie recently dying.

ANY - ANY criticism whatsoever of popular entertainment, at any time - is met similarly, with similar ZEAL to attack anyone who would dare criticize the entertainment, or any other worldly custom that’s seemed to be enjoyable. It is also treated as sacred, no matter the circumstances, although often but not always some version of “it’s not an appropriate time” is put forward.

And as a Christian, meaning that I take the Lord Jesus Christ to be my Savior, and who is God’s Son who became man, died on the Cross for my sins and the sin of others, and was resurrected, which is the only meaning of Christian, it is troubling to see Christians who don’t at all mind strangers, whom they have no personal connection to whatsoever, spend their lives not knowing Jesus Christ, as long as that person delivers worldly entertainment. As if somehow being some sort of artist of popular acclaim is an acceptable substitute for being a Christian.

I don’t see reactions like this, for either living or dead celebrities, to have anything to do with the people who have died themselves.

It’s all about their product, and the perceived loss to the self of the “mourner”.

While something like a million people dying was a statistic to Stalin, but one person’s death a tragedy, a celebrity’s death is often a cause for personal mourning, and their life and death is accounted more than many or most of the “ordinary” people in someone’s actual life.

But what is actually known of the celebrity is just fantasy, a deceptive and false effect in the cold, callous, and exploitative world of human FAME.

One noteworthy example is how there was so much criticism of William Shatner for not attending Leonard Nimoy’s funeral. Who even knows the actual personal and REAL, not fictional, relationships involved?

What Jesus instructed is “to seek first the Kingdom of God,” and He also said, though He put it in the form of a question, that it was no profit to a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul.