“Sin” is a tawdry, toxic concept. We’d all be better off, had we not been handed this sticky, absurd contradiction.

It is the accusation, the indictment that one is irremediably, morally flawed. One is biased in favor of preservation of the life-force with which one awakens in this world. I know, my description highlights the irrationality of the “sin” concept. But do consider this, how impossible a bias in favor of oneself, be a transgression of any divine will – to desire life, to prioritize the unique and the special individual which fate has decreed that each of us is…

And yet such is the meaning that is offered, attached to the human need to learn by trial and error, to make mistakes which become lessons for improvement, toward a more mindful, efficient and more elegant outcome of our projects, personally and collectively. No mistake = no lesson = no improvement. We fail as we must, so that we may fail better the next time around. And this is a given, the way it is for language-enabled mammals.

There should be no question of hatred of a mistake, of a misunderstanding, of a necessary lesson.

If hatred of “sin” is the game that we play, have we not simply swapped one addiction for another, one innocent mistake for a darker and a more tragic one?

You wish
to bid farewell
to your passion?

Very well, but
do so without hatred against it!
Otherwise
you have a second passion.

—The soul of the Christian
who has freed him/herself from sin
is generally
ruined afterwards
by the hatred
for sin.

Just look
at the faces
of the great Christians!

they are the
faces of great haters.

The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy, aphorism 411

Well how about a tune?! This one with a penetrating beat, and a lyric, well, that’s as old as Eve..  What does this tune have in common with the blog post? Not a thing! Just enjoy!