RE: Sinning, as Jesus and the church say, is good. Turn or burn Christians.
September 21, 2020 at 8:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2020 at 8:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that you probably do accept sin, you just use a different word for it.
We have to remember that our religious beliefs are attempts to explain things that are present in our very real lives. The explanations may be fanciful, but the item in question, not so much. Do you think that there may be some intrinsic or hereditary x that makes all human creatures fallible and compels us to wrong thought or wrong action?
GIA reckoned it was guys chasing girls..which is...well...meh, but we could include that in the list of things that are known to compromise human moral agency, at least. Competition for a limited (or perceived to be limited) resource. When a needful thing competes with a virtue making thing, does that have an effect on the virtue making thing, or are we..instead, consigned to choosing between a righteous suicide pact or a resignation to necessary evil? This choice is yet another play on the theme of felix culpa....and if it's starting to seem as though god and jesus are conceptual stand-ins acting out dramas of human agency....well..no shit, right?
We have to remember that our religious beliefs are attempts to explain things that are present in our very real lives. The explanations may be fanciful, but the item in question, not so much. Do you think that there may be some intrinsic or hereditary x that makes all human creatures fallible and compels us to wrong thought or wrong action?
GIA reckoned it was guys chasing girls..which is...well...meh, but we could include that in the list of things that are known to compromise human moral agency, at least. Competition for a limited (or perceived to be limited) resource. When a needful thing competes with a virtue making thing, does that have an effect on the virtue making thing, or are we..instead, consigned to choosing between a righteous suicide pact or a resignation to necessary evil? This choice is yet another play on the theme of felix culpa....and if it's starting to seem as though god and jesus are conceptual stand-ins acting out dramas of human agency....well..no shit, right?
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