What if we’ve been misunderstanding the point of sin? What if this theological and moral concept – instead of inviting normal people with long commutes and weird family baggage to blame themselves on a cosmic scale for coming up short – is actually about giving people a way of externalizing or exorcizing their failure and pain onto something we can universally struggle against, together?
What if sin, more than sinners, is our problem? And, what if the cure for the problem of sin isn’t for us to talk less about sin as a theological concept while continuing to take more individual responsibility for its reign on earth, but instead to talk more about how sin is what currently passes for domestic and foreign policy, while we begin to struggle against it together with every fiber we have left?
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