If eating ice cream were a sin

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and though I never ate ice cream myslef, but liked watching people eat ice cream- is that a sin?
 
So the question is…
Is it a SIN to enjoy watching others SIN?.. correct?

My first response is yes, that would be morally questionable… but I’d have to look for a more detailed response in church teachings to back that up officially.
 
What the heck are you talking about? Eating ice cream is not a sin people!! I think even the Amish people can eat it!!!

If you are watching them because of some sexual fascination with the licking action that might be different story.

STRANGE!!

If it were a “sin” (which it never would be) it would be no different than watching someone eat meat on a Friday during lent!

:rolleyes:
 
Oh gosh, if it were a sin to eat ice cream than I am defnitely in trouble. 😉
 
Em_in_FL said:
So the question is…
Is it a SIN to enjoy watching others SIN?.. correct?

My first response is yes, that would be morally questionable… but I’d have to look for a more detailed response in church teachings to back that up officially.
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Correct.

I’m pretty sure I know the answer as well, and think you are correct in your assumption that it is.

I can come up with many attempts to justify like:

Ice cream = pornography.
There are many different flavors of ice cream as there are many different kinds of sin. The “all natural” ice cream (heterosexual sex) is one thing, but when you add in unnatural items like preservatives or manufactured colors and flavors (more deviant sexual practices) is another.

Ice cream = violence.
Watch a vanilla movie (Star Wars) is not like Rocky Road films (SawII). {note: I never saw Saw II- but the previews seemed very violent.)

By buying and viewing such things, even though I personally do not participate in what is depicted helps promote the sin that might be in them. I have never had sex outside my marriage, but I have watched such (natural & unnatural) films. I also have never killed/kidnapped/raped anyone, and though I do not watch such films anymore because I do not like even Hollywood blood and gore, I have watched them and know many who enjoy such films.

That leads me to what had come to mind when I first posed the question, but asked it anyway. I was reminded of the particular passage when Christ was asked about adultery and where He responded that a married man even looking lustfully at a woman commits adultery in his heart.

I think I understand the implication, but curious still if the weight of them are the same.
 
Verisimilitude said:
Ice cream = violence.
Watch a vanilla movie (Star Wars) is not like Rocky Road films (SawII). {note: I never saw Saw II- but the previews seemed very violent.)
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I don’t believe watching a violent movie like “Saw” would be a sin. Because these are actors. How about the show “Cops”? “Cops” is real and violent. But their is justice involved. If I watched someone beat a woman and did nothing about it, that would be a sin. If I watched people having sex in public, that, to me, would be a sin. If I just saw them, I would be obligated to report the matter. Especially if children could happen upon them.
 
litllulu said:
What the heck are you talking about? Eating ice cream is not a sin people!! I think even the Amish people can eat it!!!

If you are watching them because of some sexual fascination with the licking action that might be different story.

STRANGE!!

If it were a “sin” (which it never would be) it would be no different than watching someone eat meat on a Friday during lent!

:rolleyes:
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Veri was using icecream as an anology “People”. :rolleyes"
 
litllulu said:
Excuse my ignorance! What was the analogy?
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EM in Fl said it well:
So the question is…
Is it a SIN to enjoy watching others SIN?.. correct?
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I was using the act of eating ice cream in place of a sin rather than say something distatesfull to make my point. I was trying to avoid naming any particular sin to avoid getting bogged down in a discussion about defending particular view points.

ice cream = pornography
ice cream = violence
ice cream = what ever sin you want to apply to the situation.

You might not personally engage in that sin because you know it is a sin, but that sin might be titalating to watch.

So the larger question is; by mearly observing what you know to be a sin are we somehow still culpable?
 
An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity.

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity.

~Liza
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Yeah, but it is too vague. Watching someone eat meat on Fridays is different than watching someone fornicate!
 
litllulu said:
Yeah, but it is too vague. Watching someone eat meat on Fridays is different than watching someone fornicate!
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True… there is a difference in gravety between sins…

Also… what is the purpose of watching another sin? Is it enjoyment? Is it taking pleasure in watching others fail?

Or is it something slightly more admirable like watching it in order to learn why it’s so wrong… kwim?

I guess it’s a complicated answer.
 
Wait a sec, so my healthy choice vanilla ice cream is in fact violent pornography?
 
litllulu said:
Yeah, but it is too vague. Watching someone eat meat on Fridays is different than watching someone fornicate!
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Using the same analogy: Then it would depend on what flavor icecream.

BTW: Never really thought of eating meat on Fridays in Lent was a sin. It is a sacrafice I gladly make. And it is sometimes a challenge when eating at friends or on an airplane, but we manage.
 
BrownR said:
Wait a sec, so my healthy choice vanilla ice cream is in fact violent pornography?
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If eating icecream were a sin, Healthy Choice Vanilla would be like posting to this bulletin board when you are getting paid for working.

Opps, I guess that is what I am doing.
 
Oblaidon said:
If eating icecream were a sin, Healthy Choice Vanilla would be like posting to this bulletin board when you are getting paid for working.

Opps, I guess that is what I am doing.
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Slippery slopes all over the place.
 
If you do not commit the sin, but take pleasure in others commiting the sin, you are enjoying the sin none-the-less. You are sinning in your heart, though not with your body (similar to lust). Going back to the pornography analogy, obviously a sin. This is a good analogy, because for the most part, all see black and white when it comes to pornography. It is easy to see that sin does not have “gray” area. You can even think of it in reference to lying … if you got enjoyment when others lied, you would be acknowledging it as a good thing, even if not physically enacting it…so simply, I would say yes :).
 
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