Extreme selfishness is the root of the sin problem, and when you have the root of the sin problem, every thought you think is a sin.

极度的自私是罪恶的根源，当你存在罪恶的根源问题时，你所有的想法都是邪恶的。

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Couples who cohabit and then marry are 61 percent more likely to divorce than those who remain apart before the wedding-because sin leads to sin leads to sin.

与婚礼前分居的男女相比，婚礼前同居的男女离婚的几率为61%——因为罪恶导致了罪恶。

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Some say it is a sin to love, I never did ask why, But, if I sin in loving you, I'll sin until I die!

有人说爱是罪，而我也从来不会去问为什么，但是，如果我的罪是爱上你的话，那么我将罪过到死。

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Their besetting sin is curiosity and they get themselves into trouble because they snoop in places where they shouldn't."

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And why is that? Within the perspective of Milton's free-will theology, sin can't exist as an external reality.

为什么呢？从弥尔顿自由意志的学说的角度来看，原罪是不可能以永久现实的形式存在的。

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The final sin I want to talk about is probably the most common, and it's called the Texas sharpshooter fallacy.

我想讲的最后的一个谬误,可能是最常见的，它叫做德克萨斯神枪手谬误。

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By Russian standards, this was a venial venal sin, if sin at all.

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Her husband had been emotionally abused as a child, she said, and he was guilty of "sin of weakness, not a sin of malice".

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Garry Wills has argued, after all, that Irish Catholic ideas about sin that sin is negotiable currency, to be practiced, done penance for, forgiven allowed John Kennedy some serenity as he screwed his way through the White House typing pool, just as the habits of Protestant Evangelical belief, in forgiveness and temptation and forgiveness, in a never-ending cycle, helped Bill Clinton find a common language with working-class people.

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