I was reading more in my old journal. Little’s been catching my attention these days, I think it’s because I’ve been depressed for a few weeks… And what I saw, really, didn’t help me.
“My parents told me I’d go blind, but after twenty years, look at me, I’m not.” [He was talking about masturbation.]
“Well, there’s such a thing as spiritual blindness…”
Since God is light, and in Him there’s no darkness, but He’s a spirit, too, it follows that when we call God “light,” we have to mean spiritual light, and that’s wisdom. So, given that sinning is rejecting God —at least insofar as it’s a mortal sin— sinning is rejecting wisdom. Every sin, then, is stupidity.
I wonder: we agree that foolish acts aren’t all equally bad, so we should agree that sins vary in their badness, too. But, is it possible to reject God in some respects without doing so in others? Obviously, it matters, if we want to understand the value in how Dante showed off the Inferno…
What say you?