Sender Spike
1 min readJun 3, 2023

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No. To use your Christian parlance -- to be forgiven, you must first repent. That is, admit your error, see the damage it has done, and then don't repeat it (see e.g. the thief on the cross who admitted that he was a thief and his punishment was to be expected, which in turn opened his eyes to the truth). If you didn't sin, please, don't go sinning just because you want to be forgiven for it. That would be rather dumb (and counterproductive).

Also, that widespread sentiment that we are somehow imperfect, which you also seem to share, really rubs me the wrong way. I mean, no matter how I look at it, the world is perfect. Period. It follows that human being is perfect, too. The key point is to see our perfection, take responsibility for it, and then behave accordingly. That's what it means to “enter the Kingdom of God on Earth as it is in Heaven.” Waiting until after death or some such when the God is the God of living is, to put it mildly, like waiting for Godot.

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