(January 1, 2017 at 11:39 pm)Astonished Wrote:(January 1, 2017 at 11:30 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's my point. Sin is the brand name for transgressions against "God"; transgressions which are rooted in human nature (lust, envy, pride, gluttony etc). Basically all those things that distract the peasant classes from their life of toil.
Remove the god from the equation, eliminate sin. And until the priestly class dishes up a god, they have to prey on the superstitions of those cresulous enough to want to be led by the balls.
Only, it's not a sin to own other human beings as property. So sin as a concept for keeping people on the moral path is not even capable of doing that.
Which is why clarifications such as "slaves obey your masters" were put in. The bible had always been a document for sociopolitical control of the masses by a ruling élite. A trend that continues to this day.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
