October 8, 2012 – Catechism 1865 – 1876

Our sin is personal and we will have to answer for it, but in the sense that we are a community, a body of Christ, we are all united and sin affects others.  Many either blow this off or refuse to even acknowledge it, but I think it is one of the main reasons we are in such a moral state that we are in.  When people do things that are sinful, if they are not praised for it, they are excused from it or just shrugged off.  There is a difference between “the one without sin cast the first stone” and “nobody’s perfect so we will let that one slide”.  The latter is where the world is at.  A person can’t really get in trouble in the public eye anymore.  I really don’t understand how Lindsey Lohan keeps making news about whatever law she is breaking.  It is reported because it is her, not really because what she did is wrong.  And the reports don’t say “don’t do what she did”, they only say she did she and its news because it’s her.  She needs help and attention, but not from paparazzi or the public.  We are going to all be sad the day she goes too far with one of these things and she or someone else really gets hurt.  Of course we will be sad only until the next celebrity does something we need to report.  We need to stop glamorizing sin and know that doing so is leading the next generation into an even darker world than what we see now.