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23 and pretty rock-solid. Once I make a decision on something important, it takes a lot to change my mind. I've held my positions on alcohol and premarital sex for several years now.

 

I take it the alcohol abstaining isn't a Catholic thing?

 

Still pretty young.

Some girl might come along and rock your world. You might even want her to have your kids.

 

The Spiderman? <heading to Urban Dictionary>

EDIT: Ah, so that is what you call it.

 

You would be correct. Has nothing whatsoever to do with religion. I just don't want to.

Almost certainly not going to happen. I have as much interest in having kids as I did in the Cardinals trading for Kevin Kolb, which is to say less than zero.

 

I'd talk to my priest and see if I could go with the not drinking in lieu of the not having sex.

Seems like you should get some leverage.

 

Knighthawk, why not become a priest?

 

You never know.

People underestimate the power of the pussy right up and until it hits 'em.

Women have been making guys do things they never imagined they'd do since Adam & Eve.

That's brilliant. I'd go with that. See if he'll wheel & deal.

 

It is a sin, though.
And if you confess it without a sincere intention of no longer committing the sin, you are not contrite. If you are not contrite, you are not absolved.
It does not matter if the priest says the words of absolution. If you are not contrite, you are not absolved.

 

I also have no interest in premarital sex. I would never forgive myself if it happened. I don't want either/or. I have as much desire to drink as I do to have sex outside of marriage. Plus, I know not to put myself in any situation where it could happen. It's not only religious reasons that I abstain from sex completely. I also do it because if I got a woman pregnant, that would ruin my dreams, and I have worked too many years to lose everything in one night.

Who said I wasn't contrite? I'm not infallible, and I genuinely am sorry for that human flaw. It's something I'd like to eventually eliminate. I haven't succeeded yet.

Because I like being a sportswriter better.

 

Abstaining from sex for your religion and going to hell for whacking off seems like a nasty Catch-22.

Maybe there's a work-around.

 

"... and I genuinely am sorry for that human flaw. It's something I'd like to eventually eliminate."

Being sorry about a flaw with the hope of eventually eliminating it is not contrition.
As defined by the Council opf Trent, contrition is "a sorrow of soul and a hatred of sin committed, with a firm purpose of not sinning in the future".