Sunday Sermon On Guilt

 

This Sunday, we will reflect on guilt. Guilty as charged. Guilt by association. Guilt in any sense of the word has to do with law. Violations of an edict, policy, or legal code. There is another type of guilt, though, that of blame! Blame the member spoil the child! If it was your member who made you sin, all you need to do is cut it off and send it to hell?

Edicts are laws made by decree. Kings, dictators, and even witches have all wanted their will to be law. Violation of this law is punishable by the whim of the ruling body. God kings are ruthless in their penalties for violations. From death in a brutal torment like feeding to the lions or burning tied to the stake to eternal hell, the presented penalties of history's living Gods.   

Of course, with the powers of God, one could even make the condemned look guilty. One could plague them as a sign of their guilt. One could punish them as proof of their guilt. One could even destroy them as proof positive they were guilty as charged. The treatment taken to establish the fact of the charge is as silly as saying, if I kill you, you are to blame for dropping dead!

Blame. It is dereliction to blame a child for being ignorant of the law that was never taught law or a member of one's body for what you did with it. It is hypocritical to establish the guilt by repeat reenactment of the incident, whether stupid children violating laws or members getting used badly. The responsible parties for neglect or lack of control are always the true offenders. Blaming some other party for the act is mere corruption. 

Legal codes are made by the rulers reflecting their choice of favor and disfavor of activities by their subjects. Like outlawing liquor in prohibition or condemning Gallileo for teaching against the church universities, such acts are historically seen as the abuse of the powers that be, to bend people to their opinion. If everyone says you are wrong even when you are right, are you really wrong? Of course not. Gallileo proved everyone, including religious university institutions, can be wrong!

The only real guilty parties are the antagonists. These fiends set on making trouble for others are at fault all the time. Whether Gods, rulers, University professors, or Doctors of the church all claim others to blame, the true culprits are those lying, stealing, killing, etcetera! Where there are antagonists, there should be protagonists to balance the score. Someone should stick up for the abused or falsely condemned. For that, there is the heavenly father and heroes... Whether mortal or indestructible!