Admitting You're a Sinner

[vulcanlogician]

Perhaps sin is just that part of what we are naturally inclined to do which we ought not do out consideration for social cohesion.  It makes sense that social demands would evolve more quickly than our ingrained dispositions.  So as a naturally gregarious animal living in large social groups we might have a good number of inclinations which we are required to hold in check because one very strong ingrained inclination is to be accepted by and feel that we belong with our group.  

Is it your wish, my brother, to go into solitude? Is it your wish to seek the way to yourself? Then linger a moment, and listen to me.

"He who seeks, easily gets lost. All loneliness is guilt"—thus speaks the herd. And you have long belonged to the herd. The voice of the herd will still be audible in you. And when you will say, "I no longer have a common conscience with you," it will be a lament and an agony. Behold, this agony itself was born of the common conscience, and the last glimmer of that conscience still glows on your affliction.

But do you want to go the way of your affliction, which is the way to yourself? Then show me your right and your strength to do so. Are you a new strength and a new right? A first movement? A self-propelled wheel? Can you compel the very stars to revolve around you?

I thought this was relevant. (The bolded part anyway.)