Oh gosh. Yes, the moral catastrophizing is such a strong and automatic temptation for many of us. I have to constantly remind myself that "[fill in the blank] is not a moral issue!"
"You aren’t automatically inherently lazy or a selfish person because you don’t like cooking."
Right?! I think what has happened is that a lot of modern secular culture has rejected the traditional notion of sin... but fallen human beings are sinful and can’t escape it. So our society has named new “sins” in place of the classical ones, and those of us trying to live in but not of the world often get caught in the crosshairs and end up with a lot of false guilt about things that have no inherent moral weight.
Oh gosh. Yes, the moral catastrophizing is such a strong and automatic temptation for many of us. I have to constantly remind myself that "[fill in the blank] is not a moral issue!"
"You aren’t automatically inherently lazy or a selfish person because you don’t like cooking."
Right?! I think what has happened is that a lot of modern secular culture has rejected the traditional notion of sin... but fallen human beings are sinful and can’t escape it. So our society has named new “sins” in place of the classical ones, and those of us trying to live in but not of the world often get caught in the crosshairs and end up with a lot of false guilt about things that have no inherent moral weight.