When you contemplate the Cause for guilt, it really is a weird idea...and even more so Sin. Coming from a religion that was very sin based as well as having the antidote, I sit with the why of it all.
What is its purpose or cause?
Will making someone feel bad garnish good behavior?
Will constricting them with rules breed kindness and joy?
In A Course of Miracles...this phrase echoed my feelings. "Today's idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. If this is true, how can you be apart from God?"
Again, what is the cause for guilt? What is its mission statement or what does it accomplish in the lives of the church members?
I know, that for the most part going up in a world of sin and being steeped in worthlessness, it seems that the idea of sin is to navigate around it and the application of the forgiveness (when you fall into 'sin') will restore you to wholeness, but for a brief moment in time.
What if there was no source or real cause for guilt?
What if there were no sin?
What then would happen to the buildings with steeples?
What would there be left to talk about.
No sin = no reason for the application of forgiveness that wipes the sins away.
What if instead we saw our lives or ourselves through the lens of nature...and to see our imperfections making us perfect coming from whence we came.
What if we could understand and see how the lives we lived and were raised in, made us into the beings we are....and when we know better, we do better. What is there to be guilty then, about?
I just can't find a reason to feel guilty for being me.
For all I did was become who I was raised to be...
I am the complete and utter manifestation of living and surviving not only sexual abuse, but religious abuse. The church had its hand in lowering and separating my essence and I.
It (church) decided for me, (and I agreed) how to live my life. And, it was a mutual understanding, that I was worthless. The churches idea of me, matched how I felt after abuse.
When I understood my innocence in being abused, I could then see the tragedy of what the churches mission was. It was to fill us up with worthlessness for its power.
What again is the cause for guilt in the church? Why does it need folks to feel guilty? What would happen if, we all came to my understanding..."the thought of sin is impossible...?"
Would religion exist without sin?
I see the world as human beings living out their childhoods, until they can unlearn and undo its damage. I don't call that a sin. I call it survival and doing the best you can with the tools you were given.
If we were to take 'sin' off the table, you would see people re-enacting their pain and using the definitions of love they saw modeled as children. Sexual abuse leaves a mark...not on the body, but in the mind. It messes with our definitions of what we call love.
I don't see sin...I see folks looking for love.
When they can redefine what love is, they will seek a different love.
A definition of Sin...was missing the mark. Is there a cause for guilt if you miss the mark? Or do you just have to reset your sights?
I love that there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist.
Imagine a world without the feelings of guilt....
