A Still Challenging

As the moments of life move forward ever so slowly but persistently I cannot help but remember when an imaginative child believed everything was a sin.

Now as a slightly better balanced elder, I am constantly reassured nothing is a sin. Absolutely nothing, and I should have no fear

And that does cause a bit of confusion.

It was always a challenge to my imaginative child’s conscience when questioning the merits of a heavenly reward by avoiding meat on Friday or or wearing a hat in church . Sometimes I even dared to question the consequences of what was once called Venial sin

And when I inquired about limbo, well we won’t talk about that.

However, now there are no sins. Sin has apparently disappeared from this earth, at least according to all published reports, both in print and in the currently strong presence of the internet.

Sin (along with all of its frightening or potential consequences) has now vanished and not only from our vocabularies.

We now live (from all reports) in a world of well intended nihilism, one totally without any boundaries. There are justifiable causes without personal responsibilities, i.e., guns are responsible for bloodshed; not the person holding the weapon.

And as an far older human being, I have dared to return to a state of questioning

If there is no longer a right or wrong, good or bad, or to use an archaic word, sin,why is the world suddenly so frightening?

Why is there so much discontent merged with senseless slaughter and inexplicable violence in our current quest for the elusive peace?

I believe it was the highly quoted Karl Marx who once wrote;

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”

Yet when the world was young, and religion was alive (and in all honesty, perhaps not always 100 percent accurate) was our world better or worse?

Just another question from a still challenging conscience!