sins

Link I am so screwed. I drove to work today - pollution. I eat genetically altered food. And I'm an American, so I obviously commit social and economic injustice with my every breath. Plus I'm not Catholic, so I can't go get my soul sandpapered by confessing my sins to a priest and saying a...

Repent!

I ask this question as an atheist who finds this question utterly perplexing. I cannot attach a meaningful concept to the statement "Jesus died to save us from our sins". Hopefully, the various Christians, theologists and just good ol' thinkers without an -ian or an -ist can help me with this.

I was wondering the other day, why do Christians seem to emphasize this so much? Yes, for an ordinary human being, this might be a very altruistic thing to do, but for an all-powerful god? When you look at the big picture, all of the sinners and unbelievers who are supposedly burning in hell for...