I’ve been thinking abut “Sinner’s judging sinners for sinning differently.:”.
The sins are
Pride - this remains the principal and most prevalent sin. Aetheists are a primary example abut most Christians are strunggling with this if they are aware. The modern term in ‘narcissism’. In psychiatric ‘personality traits’ being narcissistic is ‘good’ but being a narcissist is ‘bad’. An old Scottish saying is a man must have a good report of him. High self esteem is not self centredness perse. Arrogance is worst. Yet Jung pointed out the Shadow being the part of oneself that doesn’t recognize themselves in the negativity of others.
Mathew in the Bible said “judge not lest you be judged’
Yet we judge daily by ‘discernment’. We do not have kiss crocodiles no matter how cute they appear especially to young intellectuals with no life skills or the girls.
Instead of talking about pride Christians go on and on about sex and homosexuality and transexuality. Jesus never spoke about premarital sex, homosexuality, masturbation, pornography or contraception. By contrast Jesus spoke more frequently about money, power, hypocrisy, greed and care for the vulnerable
Gluttony - we have an epidemic of gluttony today but instead . We always joked about the Obese Church Ladies judging and gossiping about the “hot” slim cuties and those who drank. We now know a great deal about obesity and its link to cancer and its effect on longevity.
Sloth - the common tendency today is to focus on ‘sins of commission’. I didn’t vote for Trudeau. I voted for the alternative but I certainly didn’t vote for Trudeau and their mass migration of people who were anti women’s liberation and suffragetism.
The equally important consideration is ‘sins of omission’. Canada is know for its apathy just as the asylums are.
Envy - Thomas Sowell says that this sin has been institutionalized into the DEI movement. Life is unfair and the anti meritocracy movement and all these other ‘free stuff’ fads are simply responding to envy. My friend says I’d what someone has but I don’t want to do the work to get it. That’s Sloth coupled with envy.
Avarice - this is also institutionalized today by Hollywood, Trudeau and the Kardasians. It is the greed for wealth and material gain.
Jesus actually tells a story of a rich man who wanted to join him and his follower but turned away when he was told to give up his wealth and status first. The key teaching of the bible was Jesus’ saying it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven,.’
Wrath - anger , rage and hatred are not much talked about by Jesus who has his own issues. Bertrand Russell the great aetheist philosopher wrote a treatise ‘why I am not a Christian’ and spoke to this issue with Jesus. I attend church regularly and confess that I miss the sermons of old where there was more Biblical discussion rather than the soft, ‘mothering’ or ‘parenting’ marketing that goes on so often today. I studied theology and even in theological school watched my favourite professions struggling with ‘ideas’ that remained ‘alien’ to the best of societies.
“Hate speech” laws are the best example of the entrenchment of ‘hate’ . Hate is fear and sadly the archaic unscientific illiterate legal system is primarily focused on pride and power. Steal a little and they put you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king. The law’s first job is to protect the king and status quo. To have change at the political level one leverages ‘fear’ and ‘hate’. So it’s okay to ‘fear and hate’ your ‘enemy despite the teachings to ‘love your enemy’. So hate the homosexual or fear the homosexual or hate the Christian or fear the Christian. There is a whole discussion of what is appropriate fear and what is not and yet it’s all gone now as ‘name calling’ (ad hominem) passes as intelligence.
Lust is a sin but that is like the other sins critical for removing ‘God’ from the equation. I do enjoy Pearl broadcasts because she looks at the sexual failures of Christianity as points to the fridgidity of women. So many sexless marriages and control and proud women in the Christian bedrooms. So what is the attraction to Islam for young men. Angry hateful feminist Christian’s judgemental prudes or sex slaves. Even Paul encourage sex slaves. The mothers of the British empire said ‘lie back and think of England’. Divorce is a big a party for the women and ‘standing’ together as the idea that women ‘don’t lie about sex’. This is the statement of Canada’s top authority. Not because it was politically correct but because she was ‘psychotc’ and delusional and no lone called her. Thankfully a brilliant woman wrote ‘who stole feminism’ addressing the hijacking’s of the women’s movement by the marxists communists who thrive on hate and fear and demand the world be seen as ‘oppressed and oppressors’. So here we have ‘toxic masculinity’ and no ‘toxic feminity’ so it’s no enlightenment but what we learned in the 60’’s ‘people carrying signs, mostly say hoorah’ for our side’.
Scape gloating works with majority and minority groups. The real threat is individualism of communism and aetheism versus the family, the cornerstone of the society since Indo-European languages began.
