April 24, 2002
Sin is other people Catholic, contrarian (comma optional) Eve Tushnet points out:
When someone commits a horrible crime, we often leap to cast him out of the human race; we abandon all hope for him. We treat him as an alien, and, in fact, often use his crime and shame to feel better about ourselves. (“I’m nothing like him! I don’t need mercy!”) That’s a self-righteous response, not a Christian one. The Pope is right to warn against it.[10:40 PM]
Hard-Hitting Moderator: Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
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