Sin

I wonder how many people have been stoned to death because they have sinned.

I wonder how many people have stoned others to death, or flogged them to death, or burned them at the stake, or used whatever other manner of inhumane action to punish those who have sinned? These people ..the ones who do the punishing ....how many of them did so, knowing that sheer luck had them on their particular side of the scenario. Knowing that they could so easily have been the recipient of this barbarity?

To sin means to miss the mark. Literally. It means that the arrow did not fly to the point at which it was aimed. It went astray. It missed the mark. That is all.

And yet, for thousands of years, many have suffered and lived atrocious lives, because they are bound up in rules and regulations which have to be obeyed, and if they transgress, they have sinned and therefore need to suffer!

Imagine being punished for not covering your head in a place of worship. Imagine having your hand cut off for taking some bread when you are starving.

Where is the humanity in all of that?

I remember a teenager telling me that he HAD to do specific things, otherwise he would have to burn in Hell. He was taught this at his place of worship. He did not choose to be kind and loving and gentle because it was his inner nature ( and yet it IS his inner nature) ...he acted in this way to avoid punishment. He was taken aback when I asked him how he would feel if he was kind just for the sake of being kind, for the joy it brought him. He had never considered it before. There were so many rules and regulations in place that there was no space for free thought.

Sin. Just a whole heap of lies. There is no such thing as sin. It is a concept created for control of others. So often there is no logic behind the rules. Occasionally there are health reasons for the rules. Like not eating pork in the hot climates where there is no refrigeration. But to consider it a sin to eat pork in these times? Where is the logic?

And yet ....

We chose to come to this planet. We chose our lives.... we are merely actors in the plays that we have written in conjunction with others. We play whatever role we choose. We can be Victims. We can be Martyrs. We can be Smother Mother. We can be Kings. We can be Magicians. We can be Healers. We can be anything we choose. No exceptions.

Sin is for those who have not yet learned to think for themselves. For those who have not been taught about critical thinking. It is for those who allow fear-based dogma to run their lives.

How far away from sin have you walked?