RE: Why as an Atheist I Cannot Sin
September 14, 2017 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2017 at 9:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sin is one of those things where I think that the religious got it right for the wrong reasons. Divorced from it's elaborate theological flourishes...."sin", even in the biblical narrative, is simply a comment on mans propensity and tendency towards evil. However that evil may be defined. This tendency is uncontroversial and trivially easy to demonstrate. It's equally available to secular explanations for moral failure.
Why do good people, whose rational and compelling moral propositions - with a full understanding of their actions and principled disagreement with them.... do bad things? Sin.
Why do good people, whose rational and compelling moral propositions - with a full understanding of their actions and principled disagreement with them.... do bad things? Sin.
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