Christian Self-censorship of Dirty Words

[Pat Mustard]

I have committed the sin of dehumanizing people, but not in a sexual sense. I think it's usually men who struggle with that one. 

The way I've dehumanized people in my mind is when I've seen someone who is just super weird looking... like, wearing really weird clothes, having a ton of crazy piercings, weird hair colors, super goth types.... rather than just going on about my day and reminding myself that they are people, I kinda laugh in my head about it or think for a little too long about how weird they are. I've viewed them like pawns in a freak show rather than humans and that is wrong of me.

To covet just means to be jealous/envious of what someone else has and dwelling on the wish that you had that thing instead of them.  I think we've all done that. I'm sure I have.

That all seems like normal human behavior to me. I find nothing amoral in these thoughts. Just another reason why I don't understand christian sin. 

If you tied these thoughts to an action, that would be another story.

Orwell said it best with the Junior Anti Sex League. Making natural and unavoidable sexual thoughts verboten is a great way to cause emotional tension that becomes anger and self-loathing, and also a great way of binding a person to the group through denial of the self.