The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90080   Message #1704262
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
27-Mar-06 - 09:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Evil We Do- and Live With
Subject: RE: BS: The Evil We Do- and Live With
Evil is a politically incorrect word these days, Ebbie, as is sin. I had to laugh at my grandson (age 7) who wrote in a school book that his class produced that he was punished unjustly for making a   
"Poor decision." Most of us are more comfortable saying that we made a "mistake" and that it was "dumb." I've done things that hurt people out of selfishness and insensitivity. Whether or not they were Evil depends on how people define the word. I've done things that I knew weren't right because I wanted something. No sense whitewashing it.

I had a friend who seemed guilt-wracked about a lot of things and her attitude was that God only forgives you for sins you did, not knowing that they were sins. If you do something out of ignorance, it's hard to beat yourself silly over it. If you willfully ignore that little voice that says, "This isn't right, what you're doing," and go ahead and do it for your own pleasure, that's a different story.

Mea culpa.

Jerry