Thoughts On Sin

I have to admit this is a private topic of wondrous amusement to me, often causing me to bait Christians that from their replies I might glean insight into their mind. Every response adds to my research and aids my reflection of human nature, informing the way religion manipulates ordinary people in their everyday life. Of course my poor victims are completely unaware that they are indulging such inquiry, which only adds to my amazement and fuels my amusement. With honesty I openly admit I am addicted to the topic of sin.

Recently I was in a rather small coffee shop and had the delight of being able to eaves drop on two middle aged women sitting directly behind me; both were Christian, one was more Welsh Chapel, whilst the other was definitely Roman Catholic. They were discussing a friend of theirs who had recently been widowed, this friend was apparently dating a divorced man, and both agreed it was far too soon for such a thing, and disrespectful of her late husband; then with a gleam of pure delight in her eyes one said, “You do know she told me he’s much better in bed than her husband ever was!”

Her friend almost choked on her tea, “She’s sleeping with him! Oh how sinful; and not even the thought of remarriage?”

The well informed friend continued, “No, and she said she’s never going to get remarried, she just wants to enjoy life.”

“For shame” came the reply, followed by joint reflective silence, which almost had me exposed as an eaves-dropper, as I stifled my chuckles. Then the highlight of the conversation was dropped like the atom bomb,
“Well she couldn’t marry him anyway, he’s divorced and she’s a Catholic.”

The silence that followed was punctuated by the ticking of their minds, so loud it as almost audible, as they pondered the quandary of the situation; which sin was greater? I waited for further development, almost holding my breath, willing them to evolve the argument further. But I was to be disappointed, they both chickened out.

“Gosh is that the time,and it looks like it’s going to rain……”

In case you are wondering, I will not leave you in limbo:
For me sin is simply the conscious turning from what one know to be right, and instead choosing what one knows to be wrong. To walk in the light we each must look inside ourselves and answer this challenge every day of our existence.