Sure, here’s one. Failing to love is a sin against God. But no organized society that I know of requires people to love one another. And I’m not sure they could arbitrate or enforce it if they did.
Ah, but I’m not talking about a sort of legal aspect of society, rather, I am talking about peer pressure and other social pressures (advertising, for instance), which serve as a soapbox to opine about what people do in serving as a model for what they should do.
I hate “Me too” posts, but…
What Tris said goes for me. In spades. Doubled and redoubled.
And I really need to do something to get rid of my tendency to preach to the people I see as self-righteous – because what the heck am I being when I do it? :eek:
Usually you’re defending their victims.
Hmm. Now I’m a bit confused. I was explaining to you what Tris was talking about when he was talking about sin — matters which to him, Poly, and me are between a man and God, not between a man and another man. In other words, that on which eternal salvation or death, and not social success or failure, depends.
Ah, I got it, I got it. Ok.
You know, I could probably deal with people who say “I love gay people, I hate them doing gay things” better if I actually felt they meant it. Usually, it’s a thinly veiled attempt to judge and condemn somebody, not that person’s actions. They pay lip-service to the ‘love’ part, and get right to the point of what they loathe (fear, are disgusted by, whatever).
Maybe next time I hear about a christian group having a clam bake I should organize a protest. I wonder what would happen if I got a bunch of people together to picket them and call for anti-shellfish legislation…
JOhn (bemused).
I said:
erislover replied:
I think rather it should be a preoccupation with the benefit of others that is the entire basis of organized society. The fact that society has formed otherwise is another sad story, not all that unlike the problems with organized religion.
Tris