{"id":2024,"date":"2013-03-09T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/sin.html"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:27:00","slug":"sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/03\/sin.html","title":{"rendered":"Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

SIN<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

1<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
a<\/b>\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0an offense against religious or moral law<\/span><\/div>\n
b<\/b>\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible\u00a0sin<\/span><\/div>\n

\u00a0to waste food> <\/p>\n

c<\/b>\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0an often serious shortcoming\u00a0: Fault<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
2<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
a<\/b>\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0transgression of the law of God<\/span><\/div>\n
b<\/b>\u00a0:<\/b>\u00a0a vitiated state of human nature in which the self is estranged from God<\/span><\/div>\n
Origin of\u00a0SIN<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Middle English\u00a0sinne,<\/i>\u00a0from Old English\u00a0synn;<\/i>\u00a0akin to Old High German\u00a0sunta<\/i>\u00a0sin and probably to Latin\u00a0sont-, sons<\/i>\u00a0guilty,est<\/i>\u00a0is<\/span><\/div>\n
First Known Use: before 12th century<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

A word you don\u2019t hear much in Catholic\u00a0circles\u00a0 \u00a0Nope. \u00a0It\u2019s just not a term used that often. \u00a0Evil. \u00a0Intrinsic evil. \u00a0I\u2019ve heard those terms used. \u00a0But the word sin <\/i>is not something that is overly used. \u00a0I can\u2019t remember the last time I heard the word in an actual homily. \u00a0And when a\u00a0particular\u00a0issue is mentioned at all, it\u2019s often in a very roundabout way. \u00a0So I mentioned the other day<\/a> that I\u2019ve never heard homosexual relations called sinful. \u00a0I\u2019ve not heard them called wrong. \u00a0I have heard priests point out that marriage is between a man and a woman. \u00a0That does seem to suggest that marriage between any other combination is\u00a0therefore\u00a0wrong.\u00a0Though\u00a0sin, perhaps not. \u00a0But maybe none of it is sin?<\/p>\n

I learned as a pastor that you have to say it, say it again, say it one more time, then tell them you said it for the message to sink in. \u00a0And even then you could have about a 20% failure rate of getting the point across. \u00a0I can\u2019t tell you how often the church I was serving would begin promoting something, like a special concert, weeks in advance. \u00a0We would have posters and signs. \u00a0We would have bulletin inserts. \u00a0We would announce from behind the pulpit (that was OK in evangelical circles) the upcoming event for many Sundays. \u00a0The\u00a0last\u00a0couple weeks before the event I would then add the final push to encourage everyone to come. \u00a0And it never failed that someone would come up to me after the concert and say \u201cGee, I didn\u2019t know we were having that. \u00a0When did you say we were having a concert?\u201d \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n

So given the tendency some people have of missing the train\u2019s headlights, hiding things under bushels is no way to make a point. \u00a0Priests could get up Sunday after Sunday and say \u2018homosexuality is a disordered\u00a0appetite\u00a0and\u00a0homosexual relations are\u00a0sinful\u2019 (assuming, that is, the Church still teaches this). \u00a0They could do it for weeks, and you\u2019d still have a hunk of the people not sure about where the Church stands on the issue. \u00a0But since that\u2019s not what I\u2019ve seen priests or anyone do, and since when it\u2019s brought up at all it\u2019s in that sort of backdoor \u2018we\u2019re not saying anything at all about homosexuality, but we will say\u00a0marriage\u00a0is between a man and woman\u2019 approach, we shouldn\u2019t be\u00a0surprised\u00a0that one of the top demographic groups in America to come out in support of gay marriage is \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 American Catholics<\/a>! \u00a0Woohoo! <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because people usually don\u2019t take exactly what you leave them with and stay there. \u00a0For all the attempts to say \u2018but for penetration, homosexual same sex attraction is a perfectly normal disorder\u2019, that dog just isn\u2019t going to hunt. \u00a0People won\u2019t leave it there. \u00a0Questions will be asked. \u00a0Puzzlement will\u00a0occur. The obvious contradictions will be noticed.\u00a0 The pressures of the post-Western juggernaut will take their toll, and you\u2019ll have folks just take it to the next step. \u00a0Since clearly same sex attraction is one of the most wonderful disorders a person can have<\/a>, and since the\u00a0Church\u00a0isn\u2019t really coming out and saying \u00a0it\u2019s a sin or whatever other word it prefers, I\u2019m just going to say it\u2019s time to get with the act and go the final step. \u00a0After all, we\u2019re 9\/10 there anyway, let\u2019s just take it to the final obvious conclusion. \u00a0Assuming this is not what the Church wants, I\u2019d advise it start making things clear, or you\u2019re going to have more and more Catholics deciding that whatever the\u00a0Church\u00a0is\u00a0desperately\u00a0trying not to say is sin must, in fact, be the way it should be.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIN 1 a\u00a0:\u00a0an offense against religious or moral law b\u00a0:\u00a0an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible\u00a0sin \u00a0to waste food> c\u00a0:\u00a0an often serious shortcoming\u00a0: Fault 2 a\u00a0:\u00a0transgression of the law of God b\u00a0:\u00a0a vitiated state of human nature in which the self is estranged from God Origin of\u00a0SIN Middle English\u00a0sinne,\u00a0from Old English\u00a0synn;\u00a0akin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SIN 1a : an offense against religious or moral lawb : an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible sin to waste\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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