AlanFromWichita:
In the story I was reading, the girl actually prevented the sale. She did not simply voice an opinion or concern; she intervened…
As there is no news article to pull from and only the heresay of the original poster, I’ll use his words to describe the event.
“…refuses to sell condoms to a customer, and tells her to take her shopping trolley to another checkout.”
She did *not *prevent the sale. She suggested that the customer make the sale at another register by another cashier. The customer was *never *denied the choice to purchase the goods there in the store. She didn’t run the customer out of the store shaking a stick, didn’t lecture the customer on the evils of contraception, didn’t prevent the purchase, *nada. *She told the customer to see another cashier. If this is a crime, I should have been fired when I worked retail because we told this to customers alot - althought for far less grave and more for operational reasons.
God forbid a person purchase something at a different checkout counter…
If one were to speculate, one must wonder if she wasn’t hoping for something like this to happen to make a point using passive-aggressive means, or to establish herself as a goody twoshoes extraordinaire.
Can you say “judgement?” The hypocrisy of those attacking the girl runs rampant in this thread. That’s what drives me nuts on this thread. The prevailing attitude seems to be: “Let’s not attack the person who was trying to commit a sin against God, let’s attack the girl who stood up for what she believed and judge
her motives instead.”
Anger can be just as deadly – not in a worldly way but in a spiritual way – as actual murder, and Christ made a specific point about telling this.
“If you are angry, let it be without sin.” Anger does not equal sin. Furthermore, people feeling bad or embarassed about sinning isn’t a sin. Find me where Christ says it is. You won’t find it, because if Christ said so, he would be calling every great Jewish prophet before him a greivous sinner as well as the New Testament authors whose works would be included after that of His life.
If you want to switch back and forth between spiritual and worldly during the game, you can come to wrong conclusions unless you apply it equally. You can have it both ways, but only if others in the discussion don’t notice it.
Will embarassment send someone to hell? Will fornication?
That’s all I’m trying to say. If embarassment is the worst thing that comes of her attempt to purchases condoms, she should consider herself fortunate. You’re the one that fails to see any adverse affects of sin on a human being in this world. If she sins, its ok, but no one better make her feel bad about it!
“she spiritually murdered this guy and he was doing no harm whatsoever.” See? Not even I have been asserting these in juxtaposition because it is clearly absurd. It is also clearly absurd for you to use spiritual arguments to justify condemning the customer while using worldly arguments to justify elevating the clerk for doing so.
What legitimate, serious harm did the girl cause the cashier - spiritual or otherwise? Where is your Scripture backing this up?
In a way you have a good point. She skipped right over the condemning and judgment part and went straight for sentencing.
lol. Where? Since when is “see another cashier” a death sentence? lol. You are *far *too oversensitive.
The analogy applies because of the parallel of blaming and condemning. No she wasn’t going to physically kill the customer, but please do not trivialize heavenly transgressions this way. If those condoms lead to death, then certainly does her judgment of the customer.
You’re right. Good thing she didn’t
judge the customer, or else the cashier might be in a real pickle.
She intervened in a legal transaction in which the customer was engaged, presumably as a self-appointed spiritual director, and thereby placed her own morality above that of the customer – all without being asked her opinion.
Your comment reeks of judgement of this girl and your own “moral superiority” to mock and bash this cashier for what she believed is terrible hypocricy. Don’t condem this girl for “judging” when you’re grinding her into the ground with your own opinion. If what the cashier did is wrong, you’ve done ten times worse to this girl with your own words on this thread.
