christianity’s Sin
Christians would have you believe that there is a hidden ‘list’ of ’sins’ out there and only they have the ‘right’ version of it.
If it hasn’t dawned on Christians yet, that ‘list’ is really their inherited cultural values, whether it be their regional, ecumenical, or national culture is still yet to be determined. They learn this ‘list’ from watching others in Christendom. They judge you by this list, and if they know you have a sense for this list they cast you out on the basis of your knowledge of the list. After all to reject the list is to reject all that is holy, pure, and good in the world. By the way if you reject this list you’re unholy, impure, evil, and probably haunted by the ghastly figure Satan.
Forget that Jesus asked that only the ‘father’ be called good. Strike that from your memory of scripture please.
You see what we have here is a difference in terminology. These Christians have a list of ’sins.’ As if sins were a list of proper nouns, static, unchanging, always and forever wrong in every case, absolute, immutable, amen.
Honestly, who believes that any cultural value is immutable? I recall older versions of this list saying that you can’t eat shrimp or boil a baby goat in its own mother’s milk. Hey and remember that time it was ok to have slaves? How fucked up was that?
Sin is where it’s at. And I do mean Sin with a capital ‘S.’ Sin is not captured by any particular action, it is not immutable, in fact it’s very personal. Let me enlighten you, Sin can be any action at anytime, while any action at anytime is not necessarily ‘Sin.’
It’s actually very hard to Sin, few have the passion to do it anymore, for the most part people wonder around feeling guilty about their ’sins.’ I’m sure God gets very tired of this. I’m pretty sure its the ‘mortal Sin’ of Christians—they don’t know how to forgive themselves so they ask others to do it for them. The need for forgiveness is not really asking for forgiveness, it’s a show of a Christian’s vampiric need to be reassured of just how important they are to the one they feel guilty about having offended. How else do you explain the existence of Christendom in the world and the existence of poor, unloved, unwanted, people? Aren’t the Church and these things antithetical?
Oh yeah, I forgot, Christians encourage vampirism.
Hey! Even I like a little vampirism from time to time. And for all of you Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson fans, here is a little Twilight for you:
Hey, I’m not a hater.
Hey Dave, long time no talk.
So after reading this, I thought of two main things that I have read. The first was the text by Feuerbach who really clarified the notion of Sin and not sins. However, I am not quite following you when you say it is very difficult to Sin. Do you mean that few people truly feel inconsistant with their human nature to label their actions/thoughts Sin? Or do you mean something else?
And of course the second portion reminded me of my man Nietzsche, who uses vampires in soooo many references to Christianity. For example (in reference to priests): “A vampirism of pale subterranean bloodsuckers!…” (The Anti-Christ, 177). I particulary felt that your line [" it’s a show of a Christian’s vampiric need to be reassured of just how important they are to the one they feel guilty about having offended."] was useful. This does seem to be the situation for many of the believers, if they see it or not.
I think that many of your articles here are very interesting Dave. Vulgarity is not my genre per se, but it does create a sense of rawness in explaining the situations…no fancy word games here.
I hope that your studies are going well in Chicago. Let me know what you are up to there. Take care my friend-
Adam
Adam R-
September 30, 2009 11:47 pm at 11:47 pm