#SIN

[felinefractious]

🐱 Singapura

📸 Tetiana Stepa

🎨 Sepia Agouti

#photo #singapura #SIN #black #seal #agouti #ticked tabby #lynx point #sepia #n 25 31

[apenitentialprayer]

i know that as a catholic you just have to believe with what the church says but i really dont like the belief of the original sin, i feel like its such a horrible thing to believe about yourself and about other human beings too

There are actually ways of legitimately dissenting from Church teaching from less essential teachings in a way that leaves you in good standing with the Church; I'm not sure if Original Sin is one of those things, though, to be honest.

But, anon, I'm going to offer another perspective here, starting from a quote (perhaps ironically?) from my favorite heretic. One of the things that James Carroll believes is that Original Sin has been given a bad wrap. In Constantine's Sword, he says:

I referred to Augustine’s assertion of the idea that the human condition implies a perennial state of finitude, weakness, and sin, all of which will be overcome, even for the Church, only with the end of time. [...] Augustine is thus regarded as the father of a severe, flesh-hating, sin-obsessed theology, but that dark characterization misses the point of his insight. His honest admission of the universality of human woundedness is a precondition for both self-acceptance and the forgiveness of the other, which for Augustine always involved the operation of God’s grace, God’s gift. Only humans capable of confronting the moral tragedy of existence, matched to God’s offer of repairing grace, are capable of community, and community is the antidote to human woundedness. Augustine sensed that relationship as being at the heart of God, and he saw it as being at the heart of human hope, too. This is a profoundly humane vision.

I wish I had understood the spirit of this quote when I was in high school. I remember learning in my World History class that Islam teaches that all children are born good, and then the world makes them evil. And I remember my teacher asking how that compares with Christianity, and I raised my hand and said that Christianity teaches that all of us are born evil. Because I believed that at the time. And, really, the whole framing of that question was wrong and gave really simplistic representations of what Islam and Christianity teaches, but I don't think we're alone in having internalized that understanding, anon. And that's a shame.

I thin it's important to remember the worldview that the doctrine of Original Sin is actively defending us against; there was an idea, that gets called "Pelagianism" (the poor guy it got named after may not even have believed it), that said that humans were capable of being saved on their own, by their own power. Someone on this site recently asked what people's thoughts on Pelagianism were, so you can read my thoughts here. But to keep it short and sweet, I think Original Sin is an important doctrine because it saves you from the need to be perfect.

There are ways to treat Original Sin that I think are certainly unhealthy, and I think the doctrine can be a source of anxiety and fear. But I also think, very deeply, that Original Sin should be a reason why we treat ourselves and especially our neighbor with kindness and understanding. I can look at myself and say "What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate. […] For I do not do the good that I want, but I do the evil I do not want" (Romans 7:15, 19). And I can say that because I know I am ontologically wounded; that all of us have our weaknesses. That while we may still be in the moral wrong for committing a morally wrong action, our wills are compromised in a way that causes us to incline towards the comfortable and the easy rather than the good.

I wish I could go back in time and tell that class that Christianity does not teach that people are born evil. I wish I could go back and tell them that it teaches that we are born in a state of dis-integration, that we are wounded beings yearning for wholeness; alienated beings seeking everlasting belonging; beings lost in darkness, seeking the light. But I can say it now: the doctrine of Original Sin doesn't have to be an occasion to think you're depraved and without value, but it can be an invitation to come to terms with your own woundedness, because doing that (to use the words of Lutheran theologian Nancy Eiesland) "opens a space for the inflowing of grace and acceptance."

#Christianity #Catholicism #Original Sin #James Carroll #asks #Saint Augustine #Pelagianism #grace #Epistle to the Romans #sin #weakness #Lutheranism

[pitbullsposts]

I hope she's not the devil 👿 😁

#sin #smoking hot #sexy smoking #girls who smoke #girls #pink hair

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #drawing #etching #engraving #love #sin #false dichotomies #good #evil #angel #devil #demon #romantic #romance #kiss #Artuš Scheiner #lustige blätter nummer 15 1901 #thanks to fugitive saint tumblr

[negraarmadura]

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#sin #touch #black and white #sexy content #love

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

She would hate this phrasing but my faith in the Church of Granny Weatherwax is being revived by this latest reread of the witches books. Her exchanges with Mightily Oats are so vital.

#granny weatherwax #discworld #sin #don't treat people as things #it's harder than it sounds in practice #carpe jugulum

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

#Nikke #goddess of victory: nikke #Sin #Purple Hair #Purple Eyes #Long Hair #Ponytail #Thou shalt submit to the Ponytail #Thighs #Legs #Tummy #Navel #Belly #Gacha #Gacha Game

[tetramera]

Can o' Love

#sin #horror

[hauntedbythenarrative]

The Double Image, Anne Sexton//Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare, Leila Chatti//Phaedra’s Love, Sarah Kane

#web weaving #mine #parallels #quotes #words #poetry #religious imagery #religion #god #angels #blame #anne sexton #leila chatti #the double image #portrait of the illness as a nightmare #sin #sarah kane #phaedra's love #ordinary #boring #terrible

[bebopsource]

#cowboy bebop #cowboybebopedit #spike spiegel #anisource #fyanimegifs #oldanimeedit #gifs #* #sin

[nincomments]

#nine inch nails #pretty hate machine #Sin

[jarate-pissman]

Spy is not homophobic. He's just disgusted that the first thing he saw when he is free from the fridge is two sweaty old guys punching that tuna.

#spy fanart #team fortress 2 spy #spy tf2 #tf2 spy #heavymedic #implied sex #blu spy #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 fanart #art #tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 comics #tf2 shitpost #gay #comic art #sin

[lurrkingly]

My D&D pcs that i've played over the past few years. My friends and I just had our, like, fifth anniversary of playing together. :)

The """cast""":

#i love all my children equally #. #i don't care for dawn. #art #artists on tumblr #d&d #d&d character #d&d pc #oc #original character #sin #missy #hermea #eerie #verona #dawn

[zetrystan]

We always talk about our guardian angels, but what about our guardian demons? Mine are pretty active. Some more than others.

#drawing #art #comic #webcomic #cartoon #sin #sins #demon #guardian demons #gluttony #lust #sloth #pride #envy

[the-evil-clergyman]

Die Sünde by Franz von Stuck (1893)

#franz von stuck #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #symbolism #symbolist art #symbolist #painting #german art #german artist #religion #religious art #sin #eve #serpent #satan #franz stuck #classic art

[vesppperoro]

can you do headcanons for Sin of Sloth!reader?

Sin of Sloth! Reader Headcanons

Sloth. This sin is known for the failure to do things that one should do. That’s what you are.

Your system runs off of Medicare/drugs. People from other rings buy your medicine for whatever they think they need it for, even though they don’t need it.

You’re most known for your sleeping pills. They’re drugs that you can buy in any ring, but the proceeds go to you.

Your home is run by other Sloth members since you don’t want to get up and do things yourself.

Your people are very… strange looking. Many sinners and Hellborn resemble their sin, but your people are a little different. Yes, they are sloth-like, but they’re more monstrous compared to others.

You are VERY chill compared to other sins. You don’t have many rules or laws in your ring since your people barely do anything.

How your economy works makes everyone wonder.

Your real name is Belphegor, but you go by Name. Many hospitals in your ring are named things like: “Belphie’s Care”, “Belph Health”, “Belphegor PHD”, etc.

You resemble a goat, of sorts. A satyr and a centaur as well. You have the attributes of a goat, a backside of a goat whenever you turn into your demon form, and hooves in any form. You also have curly horns!

You’re a stoner. Like, you’re sitting in your chair smoking a FAT joint. For what? You don’t know. You like it.

You’re friends with Mammon because he provides you with money in exchange for drugs.

You’re also friends with Beel, but you had to lock up your party drugs since she would break into them..

Despite being lazy, you also like to throw parties!

Anyways. You may sit on your ass almost everyday, but you’re strong.

You hardly ever get into fights. You let Mammon or Beel do that for you. However, when you do, you make sure no one is left.

Similar to Belphegor from Obey Me, you were also locked away for a bit. You were locked away in order to prevent your previous rage.

Why were you in a rage? Nobody but you knew.

You were freed by Charlie Morningstar, who didn’t know why you were locked up.

Once you were freed, you went back to ruling over your ring.

You have the ability to manipulate sound and sleep. Your voice has the power to put anyone to sleep if you lace it with your abilities.

When you HAVE to fight, you use your sound and sleep abilities together. You make everyone on the battlefield hear your voice so they pass out. It’s less work for you.

#hazbin hotel x reader #helluva boss x reader #sin reader #sin of sloth #sin of sloth reader #charlie x reader #lucifer x reader #alastor x reader #vaggie x reader #angel dust x reader #stolas x reader #moxxie x reader #millie x reader #striker x reader #belphegor x reader #Belphegor #angel dust #husk x reader #niffty x reader #blitzø x reader #asmodeus x reader #sin #demon