In other words, to deny that sin has a spiritual reality, and to claim instead that it is a social construct, or a tool of ‘the patriarchy’, intended to control people, or to keep them from doing all the things they’d like to do, is to make room inside oneself for a number of tendencies shared by those who are scornful of a worldview (Catholicism) because that worldview doesn’t define itself strictly by rationalism or ‘scientism’, even if its organizing principles are rational, and it has no quarrel with science.