Honestly, removing that word from the dictionary sounds like propaganda.
Sin is a word and a concept shared by all theistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
It has historical significance.
The Latin root of the word just means “guilty”.
The Greek and Hebrew root of the word means “to miss the mark” as when not hitting your target when doing archery.
So here we have a word that is used in the world’s 3 largest religions, used throughout history for thousands of years, with Latin and Greek roots.
And, they are deciding to get rid of it because it has fallen out of use among the younger generation?
That’s ridiculous.
It seems more like censorship than an actual legitimate reason.
What about academics that are studying history?
Is not “sin” a hugely relevant concept?
How many acts during history were religiously inspired?
There are countless thing, good or bad.
For example. The Salem Witch Trials. Many innocent people died. Why? The attempted execution of witches? Why? Because the people believed that witchcraft was a horrible sin against their God. What is sin? I don’t know. What is God? I don’t know. What did they believe in? I don’t know. How can we prevent this from happening again? I don’t know. Why? The dictionary has erased everything.
That’s how it’s going to be with censorship going too far.
We can no longer understand history or philosophy if we aren’t even allowed to study it.
Whoever made the executive decision to erase words out of the dictionary that do not promote their own agenda are in the pursuit of mind control, not the pursuit of knowledge.
That's obviously a fake reason, as "sin" is still used by 100% of Catholics, most if not all protestants, and most people critiquing SJW culture as cult-like. The Christian demographic alone makes up roughly 60% of the US population. In the UK, Christians make up somewhere between 45 and 50% of the population. Oxford can claim "it has fallen into disuse" all they want, but I guarantee there are thousands of words they have kept in the dictionary that are even less relevant. It's clearly about eroding away at anything religious in nature, and they should just be honest about it.
I can understand wicked cause even I used it as it's used in the Bible as well but gnarly, that word is old, I wouldn't expect anyone to use it except maybe surfers and people from the 70s that grew up with that word lol
Yeah, hippy mom, but really, I forage burls and carve roots n shit, so it is relevant to my day to day, in the summer at least lol. Summers in the north are wicked.
Don't care, I will use words regardless of if they are in the dictionary or not. I seriously cannot even recall the last time I used a dictionary. They seem outdated, as a word can have many different meanings, regardless of what is official.
Yea like anyone would but imagine trying to teach the youth something and they tell you that word doesn't exist and because it's not on the dictionary, not sure anyone would take you seriously lol
Ah so the young people won’t know what “sin” is or means or why adults are upset at all the butt sex, queers, and trannies. It’s not like it’s a “sin” 🙄 And who knows what that means anyways.
Isn't the learners dictionary different than their normal one? What's the difference between the learners oxford dictionary and their Oxford English dictionary? The search bar says advanced, seems like the learners has more words, all I know is that if you go on Google and search why they removed it, you will receive this answer so they removed it from one of their dictionaries which apparently they got more than one?
This was a word of the day recently: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/19928 Does this sound like a publication removing “sin” from the language because the word isn’t hip?
The word sin being spiritual isn't the end of it, the word sin is the bad seperated from the good, so if people aren't aware of this word it can create very destructive results considering spirituality actually stops a lot of people from doing bad, at this point its not even just spiritual anymore cause it brings physical results, all I know is that if I didn't find God, I'm 100% certain I would be an evil person, I build up so much anger towards humanity I wasn't far off from temptation of taking lives, possibly terrorism, and that word sin has stopped me from so much crap and I know I'm not the only one.
I know I wouldn't rape, I never had trouble controlling sexual urges but anger builds up, finding God gave me more patience and love for people and it completely changed me and I know I didn't do it myself because with all honesty I didn't want to change but I accepted that I needed too and when I put my life in God's hands my whole life, perspective and mindset changed, negative thoughts are gone G, I'd be lacking a piece of my brain if that experience didn't open my eyes, I appreciate the time you took for my post, good day
Well Satan only attacks the people that want God in their lives, I was born into my beliefs but i started seperating from him which lead to this experience, I wouldn't expect people that live without God to have any form of spiritual complications because if your soul is supposedly already lost, Satan only attacks the people that aren't lost, trying to take people away from God, if salvation exists being a good person would mean nothing if you have no salvation because everyone that lacks salvation will go to the same place.
Well…you’re guessing that god and Satan even exist and care about us one iota. Or who we fck, which gender we prefer to be.
There’s some logical issues with how you see the world and it’s fcking up our country- just to be honest. You seem like a really nice guy, so I hate you’re the target of my religious disdain.
But children are literally starving to death in our streets and the country is arguing more over fetal tissue with no brains.
Well the evil is everywhere there's no denying that, but I doubt my mentality on spirituality is the cause of it, actually if more people believed and accepted God, there wouldn't be so much chaos, people just enjoy being in control or so believe they are and they lead themselves to a dead end in life and on top of that some people lead themselves wrong and then blame God when he doesn't get involved in their life after he grants your decision of living a life without him, I just don't understand (not speaking about you) point is there's many things that aren't logical, but it doesn't change the fact it happens same here my mentality isn't logical to you but what if it turns out that it's true?
“What if it turns out to be true” and “evil is everywhere there’s no denying that” just came from your mind in one post. Those are contradicting thoughts, aren’t they?
Evil is everywhere and if you read the Bible you will know it will get worse, people are going to slaughter Christians, people will lose their freedom and ability to live a normal life if you refuse to put the mark of the beast
Fair enough. But elephant in every religion is proof. And there isn’t any. You have these deep beliefs in evil attacking Christian’s and it’s destroying my country. I’m sorry we have these differences.
But as I said, I want to help hungry children. Not argue over fetal tissue.
Again, I hate you are the target as a nice guy and I hope you can see I’m talking about our country collectively.
But like I’ve alluded, 1 in 5 children die of starvation or medical de-nutrition. Yet we just spend billions for a SCOTUS ruling about fetal tissue which has no brain. True?
How many children could we have saved from starvation?
We also have a cult-like devotion to Israel’s anti-Iran beliefs. I’m pro Israel as a country. But hate it’s right wing govt. Yet the US has at least 50% Christian Zionists who bend over backward for Israel instead of brokering peace in the Mid East.
That doesn't answer my question but I'll answer yours, because money is the root of all evil, people chase money, have you heard of the seven deadly sins? Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride, the world thrive off these seven sins that God wants us to prevent and that's why these children are starving, because their greed tells them money is more important than these innocent souls, that's just one example tho, this behavior is everywhere
The world needs God weither they want to accept it or not cause God is the source of good, people believe in good and bad but don't believe in a source
You really want to help those children, put your life in God's hands and let him guide you and I don't doubt it for a second that you will open doors so you can help starving kids.
As I'm choking I'd be praying for forgiveness for my sins because I'm not scared of death, death is the beginning of a new life, it doesn't mean I wouldn't physically try and stop myself from choking tho, God doesn't say not do anything and let him do everything, this is a terrible example to try and prove your point, I hope you don't think Christianity is all based on God doing everything for you because that can explain why you have so much disbelief, let's also not mention after the successful hamilic I'd thank God for letting me live longer, I believe in God, I'm not stupid tho, God protects me from evil and negative spiritual influences but that doesn't mean I should let myself die. Let's also not forget that the natural instinct for us when we are about to die is to pray to a higher power, I know you'll never admit it but if you realize you are dying and you are going through it the natural instinct would be instant fear, panic and calling out to a higher power.
Forbidden knowledge is a sin. Somehow we are in time when self-proclaimed scientist and pseudo-educated snobs create dogmas like church did over 1500 years.
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The only reason why words are in a dictionary is because of usage. Dictionaries do not define language. People create language and the dictionary documents that.
But how do they know what's really being used and what's not, seems to me like they just made an excuse to remove sin from the dictionary to confuse the youth about spirituality, don't believe everything they tell you.
I feel like a few people having the power to manipulate the dictionary is a bad idea, if they can just move shit around then the dictionary isn't even a reliable source to look for terms, why does it exist, dictionaries should be to learn words you don't know, not words you already know
The removal of this word is very effective when it comes to spirituality, you can expect generations to get worse from now considering the word sin separates the good from the bad, it's concerning depending on how you think of it, I wouldn't expect you to understand tho
The new generations are going to grow without guilt of doing the bad, sin has stopped many from making the bad decisions, removing the knowledge of the existance of sin to our youth will cause unbalanced chaos to the population, evil will spread much faster and all the crap going around will get worse, more shootings, more assaults, more rapes, more crimes, these are people that will grow in believing that they can do what they want without the knowledge of the existance of natural justice, you still think it's no big deal right?
Looks like we’re gonna need to keep all the old dictionaries that we have since they are just removing words
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I think it is a valid edit because it isn't actually a real word. It is a word specific to a particular type of fantasy. It is like having Harry Potter jargon in the dictionary. It isn't in it because it is not commonly used other than by Harry Potter nerds.
If you really wanted to put a meaning on it, it means something a fictional character has been described to not like. Which essentially means nothing.
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