Interesting that I and several others are responding intelligently to the "Lena" question, while the first 10 or so responses to Severian's post were so shrill. Maybe the recent posters were able to get a good night's sleep. . .

I'm new here, but I read the Lena question and the responses, and frankly, I think I see a lot of strong negative emotional response to what is actually a very interesting questions (even if poorly phrased). I'm a Christian, and I believe that we can sin in our thoughts. But a sin by deed is worse t...