Post #63 "The Question of Sin"

Religion is a determining and defining patriarchal society. As such it has determined and defined the patriarchal world it has created. As a determining and defining patriarchal society, religion has created sin to create weakness that would promote power. Power cannot exist without weakness. Power creates weakness. Creating and encouraging fear, as fear of sin can be a controlling factor for those in power and for those seeking power. Throughout history, fear has been used to control the masses. Through fear of having sinned, thereby angering a moody and judging God, a created moody and judging God, the masses looked to be saved. Has religion created sin to control the masses by threatening suffering and eternal damnation in a raging pit of fire for the disobedience to commandments and laws it itself has instituted in God.s name?

If science takes the place of God, and or creates its own God; what about sin? Does the nature of sin change? Is the God of religion the same God as the God of science? Is the sin of religion the same sin as the sin of science? Does sin exist in and within itself, or does sin exist in certain situations and under certain prescribed conditions? Is sin the same offense to science as to religion? Can what is seen as good to religion be seen as sin to science and vice versa depending on necessary control measures? What about current issues judged by religion as sinful, such as abortion and on the other hand, the research and use of stem cells? How would science judge, as religion would, a Sabbath spent in research or other studies rather that attendance at a community prayer and worship gathering? How would science judge a fact determined by faith rather than by reason? A close examination of the current concepts of sin lead to murky waters indeed. Would sin not be viewed by most as a violation of one's personal ideals, views, property, possessions, and person hood? Do these views of sin not offer an explanation of the occurrences of disagreements, wars, and conflicts? To what degree and extent do our governing societal laws derive from concepts of good/bad, grace and sin? At what point in the evolution of division, as in division as the function of creation,  are we? Where do we place sin...in Reality or in Non-reality?