The mess I’m in
by Peter Mullen, TCW:
LENT starts on Wednesday and every year I greet it unwillingly. It’s the self-disgust, facing the filth, that I can’t stand. Ludwig Wittgenstein said: ‘Most men think of themselves as half-decent. The religious man knows he is wretched.’
I am religious. I don’t mean by this that I’m good, for it is my religious sense which convinces me that I’m not good. I think the word I’m looking for is bad.
I confess I have doubted Christ’s Incarnation, his miracles, his Resurrection and Ascension, but there is one Christian doctrine which is impossible to doubt. I mean the doctrine of Original Sin. This is where all the intellectuals and other enlightened folk jump on me and tell me that I shouldn’t believe such a wicked, ancient, primitive, stupid and downright nasty notion as Original Sin, Good God – it might even undermine all that self-esteem we’re supposed to have!
I must say something by way of explanation.
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