Yet think she must; she knew at last the number on the dreadful door of fantasy, the threshold to the escape that was no escape; she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think – or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
— My favourite passage from Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Tag Archives: sin
Sin is Essential
Christianity crumbles if we’re not sinners. Christianity is based on fabricating a disease and then dreaming up and selling a cure to the ailment it devised in the first place.
via The Friendly Atheist and also visit the Naked Pastor website.
It’s A Sin – Pet Shop Boys
Christopher Hitchens vs Douglas Wilson
Loved this documentary. Christopher Hitchens is the closest thing I have to a god now so I guess not a big surprise.
‘Collision of Lives’
Those Old Pearly Gates – The Doctrine of Heaven
I’ve ranted quite a bit about the doctrine of hell – but here is an excellent article about the doctrine of heaven. I don’t think many people have given it much thought – so I hope this article makes at least one person give it a second thought.