free will paradox

[Angrboda]

Leave it to the Christians to define being normal as "a bad thing."


Having realized that the doctrine of sin originally conceived by Christendom doesn't stand a ghost of a chance of being real and proven to be such, Christians have proceeded to redefine sin in an attempt to reconcile their theology with common sense and the goal of saving their theological butts from the fire. (I'm told there was a Christian once who redefined sin as "a certain kind of French pastry" in order to get himself out of a jam.) And here we have Frodo falling in with a long line of disingenuous apologists and attempting to redefine sin as "that unpleasant feeling when your panties ride up your ass." It's a masterful stroke of equivocating, but when you redefine it to mean anything and everything from serial killing to a mild discomfort over have made a poor choice, it ceases to be meaningful as a concept, or valid as a yardstick for metering punishment, and your doing so becomes a complete and reprehensible misrepresentation of how sin has been described by Christians throughout the ages.