March 28, 2010
Sins are defined as breaking religious laws; displeasing God and the like, which indicates the unpleasant aspects of few deeds that create some sort of disappointment on the side of the doer and other people around and the like. Hence, it is customary to label oneself as “sinner”…or claim oneself in front of the audience….”I am a sinner’… and the like…
Presumably, when one clicks such matter in further details, one could pop to religious stories in which those Founders of religions or Writings, have showed exemplary life style to those who follow them, and those who do not practice and follow their footsteps are considered as sinners…spiritual disease that is contagious and the like….Is this statement true? I do not think so.
Spirituality and Religions are two different causes and realities, in which Religion is one of the instruments to acquire spirituality, and thus those different laws that exist in different religions are different kind of nutritious that could help us interaction and communication…when one stops one form of religion and follow another, it is like changing food style or restaurant or way of life too…
For example, in the New Testament we read that ….said Jesus Christ…he replied…there is none good except the Father…he considered himself as…which indicates that no one escapes the fashion of the style of being sinner…
In the Holy Quran…it is also stated that…”do not say to anyone you are a believer”…which indicates as I understand that, none has the right to judge and qualify as like you are like good or bad…meaning all are in equal position, so what is expected from you is to be what the Book says…be a good person…
The point about sin is interesting that it is considered today as escape goat in which many use it to escape the bad things they are doing on you, and try to calm you down after they ruined your house and function in their own respective religion, which sounds nonsense and stupid…and needs correction…
If anyone commits a sin, meaning if this is the underlined fact, why do they bother categorizing and classifying individuals as bad or good…meaning if the book is the standard they follow, where is this classification of people come from, and what is the necessity here, except to use it for political motive and purpose inside the religion itself—the usual behind agenda stuff?
This aspect of sin—breaking religious law—could need some sort of revision, in which if religion is used for friendship and unity , and if any commits sin is a universally underlined fact, this area sounds futile except being a mere game.
The other aspect of Sin is displeasing God; and in this regard we have to know first God whether a specific act displeases God, in which we trend to claim in one aspect that God is forgiving and in another aspect we label individuals as sinners….what is the balance…we do not know even who wrote the writings or texts in a world mischief makers and forgers are in abundant …
When Martin Luther started the movement of Protestantism from the former church….he belongs… Catholics…one aspect of disagreement was this part…how could one pay money or…for the sins one commits…and then based on this…the aspects of disagreement…he formed such a huge cause Europe…
The point here is about forming and creating a kind of evolution, this is about identifying practices and thinking tat goes in conformity with our thinking and reality, in this case the idea of sinner thing is one of the most funny thing in this world where we claim we are sinners and but also claim those who do not belong to our group are like more sinners than us stuff… BIG PARADOX….
There could be different categories of sinning in religious …those who have significant and fundamental question on the religion and are not obedient [few people do that since they have questioning minds]…those who commit acts that do not go inconformity with the law of every religion [all do this] but this is okay to stay in the religion in many cases, in few cases they remove you…;
The former ones are thinking people; they ask and later they reach to the drama going on behind the offices and the like; they consider them enemies or whatever…and remove them; but the later case, they are good people, they are used as justification, and they themselves confess that they are sinners; they cannot question authority since they have no courage and capacity at all.
Here they put themselves under big jail they cannot escape or tied up; they willingly submitted their freewill to certain authorities or idols they create in their own minds, they live under prison house to the extent that they are not even aware that they are tied up in big chains that put their integrity and freedom under big question marks; their nobility and human reality is programmed under certain thoughts in which if they get out from that, they think everything is dark, and there is no other world that could exist after what they follow.
