/ by Edward Mullany

Of course, only the boldest, most disciplined, and non-conforming of these types actually act as though sin has no reality, when push comes to shove. The rest sin timidly, in small, unoriginal ways, in accordance with what has been prescribed to them (and deemed acceptable) by their culture and their peers, so that they will always refrain from, as it were, ‘going too far’, that they might maintain for themselves the illusion that they are ‘good’, and that they wish only to ‘express themselves’, and live ‘freely’, and be their ‘true selves’, and so on and so forth.