Opinion poll!
I was looking up a book to buy on Amazon. A reviewer gave it a bad rating. She seemed very offended that the book talked about “sin,” ranted, “#fundamentalist,” and so on.
Personal disclaimer:
One of my favorite speakers, Graham Cooke, likes to say, “God is SO not an evangelical because he is not obsessed by sin. He is consumed with life.” That’s like saying a good surgeon is obsessed with healing, not wounding, even though a wound may be necessary. Or a good gardener is obsessed with harvesting fruit, not with pulling weeds (even though that may required).
What is your opinion of the idea that some things are sins? I don’t mean, ‘are you offended by fundamentalists?’ (I often am.) I just mean the sort of philosophical idea that something could be sinful. Do you agree with that?
If you disagree, what about rape? Racism? homophobic hate crimes? Are those sins?