What is Sin?
Jun
30
Written by:
6/30/2010 2:26 PM
The question was provoked this morning by Patsy Cline singing "Dear God" in hope He would help her stop sinning. I've heard it dozens of times because it's on my 30Gigabyte iPod and never has it provoked in me a serious thought. This time it unlatched a lifetime load of remembered old time gospel music, not literally remembered, for I never paid attention to the silly old words, but just the repetition of sin, sinners & sinning. Sin is bad. Sinners are bad people. Everybody's a sinner. People are bad. Get saved! Okay, Dear God, what are you doing to a congressman who votes to fund an egregiously immoral war, or to fund the torture school at Ft. Benning? Okay, Dear God, why to you bless judges and prosecutors who put black men in jail for a little grass stashed? Enough crass grandstanding, what is the fate of a country that cannot distinguish between good and bad?
I'll answer that. Our fate is to be blessed with technology.