Dennis Prager argues that bad thoughts alone aren't sins. Many people commit evil acts believing they're doing good, he says, so moral integrity depends on cultivating solid values, not just having good thoughts.
My Yom Kippur sermon on Saturday was on this whole issue of bad thoughts. Are bad thoughts sins? So I posed an interesting question: if bad thoughts are bad, meaning they lead to bad, then presumably good thoughts lead to good, but that's just not true. Most evil is done by people who think they have good thoughts. What you need are good values, not good thoughts.
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