Post #145 "Sex and Sin"

What else could be determined from this consideration, when, according to religion, women are thought to be incapable of all the most prized masculine virtues such as logic or incapable of possessing power. These opinions are very obvious in the writings of the early church fathers who have been canonized as saints of the church. The fact that there are religious denominations that still refuse to ordain women/allow women unto their hierarchy, gives rise to the fact that in order to be socially acceptable in today's world, the church has put on the pretense that it has finally placed the female in the category of accepted and acceptable humanity

Sin is seen by religion as a lowering of one's self worth, of one's souls worth. Sin was seen as a lowering of the masculine by being lured into perverse acts that were not really of his own nature or worthy of his nature. This makes it unacceptable for married men, that is, men married to women as opposed to men married to men, to also not be acceptable for ordination in those same religious denominations. These men are seen as sinning through touching the feminine of the female species as in an accepted marriage, which is comparable to becoming unclean by touching a corpse in early religious belief. If the masculine touched the feminine of the male, as in homosexuality, it is seen as God worship. This is the basis and foundation on which the idea of sin is founded. Surly this is why most sins can be traced to being sexual in nature; sexual sins being the most secret and perverse. When sin is seen as representational, sin doesn't exist because one does not act out of the chosen status of God's image and so does not sin against God. As self, one can only act as self, meaning to act as one is. If there is no desire to be like God, which is the same as desiring to be God, one has no knowledge of sin. To them, sin does not exist.

This god/God of religion is represented as holy, meaning without sin. This Gospel is said to give responsibility to the church for saving souls of sinners. Religion could be said to control and direct God's power of redemption, to have the power to loose and bind, to forgive sins. Interestingly, several Gnostic Gospels say there is no such thing as sin. The creation and use of 'sin' can be seen as an effort to access through control,...through creating the power of sin. Sin compounds as the process of division breaks down with the process of division of creation.