/ by Edward Mullany

It is through such ‘becoming’ (or, if you like, ‘unbecoming’) that we sin, and it is through avoiding it that we do not sin. Though we must remember that sin does not arise out of a particular array of activities, tendencies, or preoccupations, but from a certain kind of relation — that is, a disordered relation. Meaning, any given one of us is as susceptible to sin as any other. Because any relation involving a human is susceptible to disorder, due to the very nature of the human.