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[Note<\/strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n We seldom read the word sin <\/em>in the newspaper or hear it on TV, in the movies, or even in conversation. It has almost become a sin to mention sin.<\/span><\/p>\n It has not always been so. Our nation, rooted in Biblical concepts and terms and continuing in such for almost two centuries, long had a moral sense of righteousness and therefore of sin. It is not so now.<\/span><\/p>\n What has caused such a casting off of the concept of sin? Almost a century ago Humanistic psychologists, sociologists, and educators decided guilt is a harmful emotion, so sin<\/em>, the cause of guilt, became a dirty word. With the elimination of sin and guilt has come the corresponding elimination of shame. By the 1960s, these ideas had so taken hold that they produced the \u201csexual revolution.\u201d \u201cThe rest is history,\u201d as the saying goes.<\/span><\/p>\n The means of mitigating the idea of sin in the public psyche was ingenious: Label sinful acts by new names and\/or call them \u201cdiseases\u201d or \u201cdisorders.\u201d Related to this strategy has been the advent of \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d (PC), itself a euphemism for censorship and the discourager of honesty.<\/span><\/p>\n Consider some examples of PC labels of sin:<\/span><\/p>\n Sexually active <\/em>and safe sex <\/em>belong in the same list. The PC \u201cpolice\u201d insist on \u201ctolerance\u201d of all viewpoints and practices, except, of course, those viewpoints that insist on the \u201cintolerant\u201d Biblical doctrines that define sin and exalt righteousness (Pro. 14:34).<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, January 7, 2011].<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution<\/strong>: From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 16[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3\u00a0 page.] We seldom read the word sin in the newspaper or hear it on TV, in the movies, or even in conversation. It has almost become a sin to mention sin….<\/p>\n\n
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