RE: I literally cannot avoid sinning; so, why...
July 20, 2023 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2023 at 12:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Lek.....
All competent moral agents, regardless of the contents of their moral systems, try to avoid the things their moral systems prohibit, and feel guilt and shame when they fail. Even when....especially when their moral system is ridiculous. When there is no reason for the prohibition, when there is no reason to feel guilt, when there is no need to be ashamed. It's pathological.
You're trapped in that box yourself, so why ask others to answer the question? Are you reaching out for other terrible people, lonely wherever you're at, loving evil and wanting to do it? Are you an incompetent moral agent, assuming...or even hoping...that others are like you? I've long been of the opinion that this is the working bit of christianity. It tells folks who know that they're shitty people that there's a way out of the consequences of their own shittiness, even if they won't stop being shitty.
All competent moral agents, regardless of the contents of their moral systems, try to avoid the things their moral systems prohibit, and feel guilt and shame when they fail. Even when....especially when their moral system is ridiculous. When there is no reason for the prohibition, when there is no reason to feel guilt, when there is no need to be ashamed. It's pathological.
You're trapped in that box yourself, so why ask others to answer the question? Are you reaching out for other terrible people, lonely wherever you're at, loving evil and wanting to do it? Are you an incompetent moral agent, assuming...or even hoping...that others are like you? I've long been of the opinion that this is the working bit of christianity. It tells folks who know that they're shitty people that there's a way out of the consequences of their own shittiness, even if they won't stop being shitty.
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