David D.G. wrote...
"Well, what atheists don't get is that even though committing tax fraud is allot? worse in the worlds eyes than stealing a piece of bubble gum. In Gods eyes, sin is sin, and they are both the equally evil. People make mistakes, and I would imagine Kent has repented."
It's interesting how fundies apply this equivocation of the evilness of sins (or crimes, as the case may be).
On the one hand, a practicing Christian who has never done anything to hurt anyone, but is a homosexual, is guilty of diabolical depravity on par with that of Vlad the Impaler and Adolf Hitler combined, and thus deserves to writhe in flaming torment for eternity.
On the other hand, Kent Hovind (or whatever other "holy" individual is being defended) merely "made a mistake," for which he surely has repented (as if that would undo any of the crime itself, even if it were true), and his crime of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of income tax evasion (and repeatedly lying on the issue to boot) is being likened to the shoplifting of a piece of bubble gum.
So, sin is sin is sin, is it? Maybe all sins are equal, but clearly some sinners are more equal than others.
~David D.G.
Thank you, David. Very well said.