Don’t Do That
Why is it that so many things that we like to do are considered sinful?
When I asked God about this she told me that I was doing to much listening to what other people said were sins. She told me that most things that were declared sins were done so because of some religion’s need to control people. One of the best ways to control people is by making them feel guilty and then offering to relieve that guilt.
You could stick to declaring things to be sins that most people don’t have an inclination to do, like murder, but then you wouldn’t drum up many customers for your forgiveness business. So a lot of what we ended up with on the lists were things that some priest or shaman didn’t feel much like doing themself but which they saw plenty of people around them having fun doing.
Of course the Puritans managed to take this to a whole ‘nother level, but God told me it was because their priests had issues. He declined to go into detail, though, and when I pressed her she pointed out that some people consider gossiping to be a sin.
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