I find it interesting that Christians are so unforgiving about abortion, homosexuality, transgender, etc) but ignore the top ten of God's atrocities (10 Commandments).

Typical hypocrites.
I really have no respect for anyone's religion.
None.

I was never taught that it was an unforgivable sin and I am not aware of any that teach this here. Blasphemy was unforgivable. Rape is okay, but don't use God's "name in vain." I do remember when the fundamentalist theological college in my home town refused people who were divorced (adultery), female, or minority.

That's why the terms Christian and hypocrite are used interchangeably in my vernacular.

They are all forgivable sins, you pays your money to the church and they forgive you.

I was raised Catholic so I just went into a box with a priest in the other box and told him my "sins" and god knows how much fun he must of had with just his blurred face visible while I confessed my "sins" to him... They're all perverted hypocrite's.

Does that go for child molestation as well?

Isn’t it amazing what “god” will let pastors get away with? Almost as if god is just some figment of their imaginations.

Evangelical ministers have always had a love - hate relationship with sex.

I'm betting they would be very lenient to their male congregants, as well. It's when women cheat that's just inexcusable.

Also for Donald Trump, for some reason.

Yeah, well, you try forgiving them if it's Your wife that he's having an affair with.

What else should one expect? Pastors are, after all, human. That makes them quick to condemn others not of their "tribe", yet justify their fellow "tribesmen". In other words, they're bloody hypocrites, but we know that already.

They think they are exempt from anything

"A second chance for me, Eternal punishment for you."

This is the moral analog to their economic plans.

" I keep the profits, you get the debts."

Okay, so Adultery is forgivable IF a Priest, etc, does it.
So do they see the actions of Paedophile Priests as being forgivable also?
Was the adulterous act by which God impregnated Mary also forgivable as well and how about Abraham had it off with his slave-woman and not his wife?

For once, I agree with them. Adultery is absolutely forgivable. I think that our culture has made far too big a deal of it.

A very common religious and cult mindset.

All religious people are far above the law of any kind. Once you have been with Jesus for a time, you can do anything and God will not be paying attention. As for those who are not pastors, who are just the sheep following the lead of this person, well your fucked, the Pastor has made sure of this and it will take a lot of money to get you back in the good graces of the Pastor. Remember the Pastor needs money to live all others are supposed to live on prayer and good thoughts.

He’s done adulterous things, that’s why he’s said that.

All crimes are good for pastors to commit, they are doing it for the community. Right?

hypocrites!

Since religion and marriage are scams, of course the con men who run the flimflam can make up any rules they want. Many of these con men have charismatic personalities which attract susceptible people to them. It’s all part of the job description and a major perk of it. It’s like college professors and coeds, pastors and their parishioners are part of the male patriarchal game.

"Maybe the bigger takeaway here is that adultery — supposedly one of those unforgivable sins in the conservative Christian world — isn’t a dealbreaker for most pastors."

Not sure where this comes from... I thought the idea was that God can forgive all sin apart for (for some reason) denying the holy spirit.

I see the survey itself is linked [lifewayresearch.com]

Data appears to be from a single question. No date is shown for an equivalent question about the congregation. As such the idea that "they think their god's laws don't apply to them.. just to everyone else." is not really addressed by this data. For all we know the results from asking a question about a churchgoers adultery might provide equivalent results.

However there is a comparison to the same question being asked in 2016. It seems that adultery appears to be more forgivable now that four years ago. I find that interesting.

Also the footer of the page describes this as Q 27 a separate press release on the same site show the results for Q 28 which appears to be on sermon length and Q 17 on Global warming

[lifewayresearch.com]
[lifewayresearch.com]

However it doesn't look like a complete list of questions is available anywhere.

Of course...and how much is the price of forgiveness?