[quote=@Efficacy] Ooh, then you'd totally benefit from the same things God has been showing me. I've been having some struggles with that until a few devotions woke me up to the fact that I have to actively fight it. You might benefit from reading these three: https://www.intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions/the-landmine-of-laziness https://www.intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions/what-god-thinks-of-slothfulness https://www.intouch.org/read/magazine/daily-devotions (the devotion for the 25th of January) [/quote] Oh these are apologists talking about it. I thought they were specific passages or something. 1. "Wicked, lazy servant" doesn't really mean that they're in the same category. "You heartless, pale man" doesn't put pale in the same category as heartless, for example. Also I like how it claims non-christians are all horribly lazy. 2. We also have a sense to be lazy, so a sense of purpose doesn't mean much. "Lazy people only care about themselves" is a baseless claim. This guy's personal experience that he learned from his mom has nothing to do with his religion. That should've been ommitted, and that it wasn't is a hit to his credibility as someone who can give biblical advice. Uhm... Telling people to be like ants is terrible advice and very much a control mechanism. I mean, it wasn't at the time since people didn't know much about them, but modern time we know that they will literally work themselves to death, continue working while infected with a mind-controlling fungus, and don't have autonomy. That's antithetical to "personal responsibility." 3. Strong personal disagreements aside, this has nothing to do with inherent tendencies. That only applies to "willing laziness" ie "I don't want to do that therefor I won't," which isn't the same as chronic laziness.