The Evolution of Atonement
22nd December 2011
Interestingly enough, few Catholics these days go to confession either—the matter is considered scandalous. So there’s all kinds of unresolved guilt that people have in modern America. And how do they resolve it?
Well, there’s a new step in the evolution of indulgences. Instead of doing penance for one’s sins, or paying for an indulgence for the same, we now, in our upper middle class SWPL segments, outsource the penance and payment for the indulgences instead to other groups that we don’t like or who compete with us for status.
So, instead of giving to the poor, we lobby for income redistribution away from other groups. Instead of living simply so others could simply live, we lobby to force other people to live more simply. To expiate the perceived sins of racism, we lobby for Section 8 housing in OTHER people’s neighborhoods, and for the discrimination in terms of allocation of society’s goodies against OTHER people’s children.