DAMAGED GOODS. A Journey Through Hell makes for a Moral Sinner.
“The misguided acts of my past have brought me here to the virtues of my present and will hopefully lead me to the grace of my future.
Sin is mistakes in the face of youthful abandon. I found my moral limit because I crossed my own line and did not feel good about it.” Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins.
Sin isn’t a transgression but a natural human characteristic that allows for moral development.
BORN BAD. The Apple doesn’t fall far from the Tree.
“That repulsive spectacle of fraud…his face was the face of any honest man, it shone with such a look of benediction; and all the rest of him was serpentine.” Dante, Inferno.
The idea of Original Sin, with Eve and the snake.
Evil exists because we have free will. How can we avoid it? “Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” Augustine, Confessions.
REDEFINE SIN.
“Sin is a matter of opinion, and in my opinion sins are only sins if you are hurting other people. So if you’re not hurting anyone else, where’s the damn sin?” Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins.
“The only absolute either/or there is, is the choice between good and evil.” Kierkegaard, Either/Or.
We must moderate sin, so that we do not live in a life of repression or chaos.
We must make the sins relevant to modernity, to find the right balance between what really is deadly, and what is just a natural part of life.