TRUST BETRAYED, HOW CHRISTIAN IDEAS ABOUT SIN DO HARM
The Roman Catholic Church says that we have inherited a bias towards sin from
Adam. More liberal religionists say we are born sinners somehow but they
don't know how. The true Protestants say that we sin all the time unless
we are saved by faith.
So, when a person does good for you it is more than half likely to be an attempt
to manipulate you for their selfish ulterior motive. When a person tells you
something it is most likely to be a lie.
And the Churches are the very people who ask for our trust. They say that it is
a sin to be too suspicious but yet they imply that you can’t be too suspicious.
When everybody turns cynical they will make themselves and others unhappy and
this will lead to scheming and fighting. People will not care what they do, for
each individual will think that they must get everybody else before they get
them. It is most likely that the religious people only fake it when they seem to
trust other people. If they do trust then they are not really religious. They
would not promote the doctrine of preferring sinfulness or support cults that do
it if they really trusted others. They can’t trust others when they tell lies
and have them doing the same. They cannot trust themselves so how could their
trust for others be genuine?
It is blasphemy of the highest order to believe in God and what he has done when
you have to rely on treacherous men to hear the word of God and when they
interpret the word for you. Then you are really seeing God as the men want you
to see him and that is putting them first and blaspheming God and espousing evil
doctrine and opposing the truth that God wants all to know. The blasphemy is a
most serious sin indeed.
And the believers condemn gossip. If we are that bad does it really matter what
people say about us? They can say we stole this or that and even if it is not
true that does not matter for we would have done something as bad sometime.
Everybody gossips and the religious notion of original sin certainly makes sure
that they will when they dare to. It is clever how much religion condemns evils
and then persuades people that doctrines which will draw them to commit them are
true. That way it can look like the enemy of evil while it sneakily tricks
people into doing it. What is happening is that people end up acting terribly
because they believe they are terrible anyway so doing more evil will make no
difference.
Religion says that the gravity of a sin is reduced by the amount of evil that is
in the victim. For example, it is very evil to hit a saint but not as evil to
hit a killer. If we are all evil then the person who beats us up and nearly
kills us is unjustly maligned by society. He is bad but his crime is a small one
and when society likes small crimes it should not deplore this one. When a
person believes in such doctrines his or her resistance to the temptation to
commit sick acts will gradually wear down. When they are caught and punished
they will not be sorry because they will see themselves as victims of society.
It will make them worse.
The law of the land would have to be revised to make it soft or evil if we are
that bad. Religion could say that life and freedom are punishment enough.
Doctrines like this throw a damper on everything in life and make you feel
guilty all the time. God is unlimited love so he hates unlove or sin infinitely.
And the fact that sin would therefore be infinitely evil means we should feel
like we poisoned the whole world. Religion likes inducing guilt because it makes
us more malleable and it can use us better.
