SIN When I was floundering in the fundamentalist camp, I never understood what people were talking about when they went around saying that Jesus died for me. The little man inside me was screaming, "What the hell are you talking about? I haven't done anything. Why does someone need to die for me? Are you trying to tell me I did something worthy of death?" Then the bullshit would start. It was Sin (with a capital S). I was awash in it apparently. Everybody was. It happened thousands of years ago, long before any of us were even born. Yes, we were born in sin and thus worthy of death. I am amazed at how people simply accept this explanation, this bunch of theological crap, without question. Take Kramer's advice. Listen to the little man inside. He'll tell you most assuredly what a load of horse manure it is. Sin is a word, and nothing more. It is a human idea. I truly have a hard time understanding how people came up with this crap. I guess things were happening (to primitive barbaric people, mind you) and they didn't know why. So they somehow came up with the notion that maybe they had done something wrong, something that deserved punishment, something that was making the stuff happen that they didn't understand. There was a mystery before them and they had to solve it. They couldn't let it just sit there and remain a mystery. Something about the human spirit just can't abide that. Hell, no. If there's a mystery lurking about somewhere, it's got to be solved. So they came up with the brilliant idea that one of our long-ago ancestors, like the very first one, did a bad thing and somehow incurred a debt because of it. He was unable to pay the debt, so it was passed down to his survivors, who were also unable to pay it and thus passed it along to their estate, and so on and so on. Talk about nonsense. If there really is such a thing as Sin, it's God's problem, not ours. He made some kind of mistake. Even the bible suggests this:
It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. (Psalms 100:3)
If God made us, He's responsible for everything we do, in the same way that a car company is responsible for the vehicles they manufacture. If something goes wrong with your car, is it your fault? Maybe. If you didn't take proper care of it. But what if you did take good care of it? Whose fault is it then? Who is responsible for making it right? The one who made the car, the manufacturer. If Sin is in the world, God made a mistake, not you. He's responsible, not you. If God made the world, and was happy with his creation, if He said it was very good (which He did), then the whole idea of Sin is bogus, like to the nth degree. It's kind of like the Second Coming nonsense, and the Messiah nonsense and all the other nonsense that the Christian slaves extracted like an impacted molar from the Bible, which - on close examination - doesn't support any of their nonsense. (If you'd like to know what the Bible really says, get yourself a copy of The Bible, Why God Had Nothing To Do With It.) The Bibe: Why God Had Nothing To Do With It
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