Sin: Fighting Against Our True Nature, by Regis Martin

 “Your preferences have not been considered.” —C.S. Lewis

He was, by all accounts, an exceedingly frugal fellow. Even in conversation his words were few and infrequent. Once, after attending a church service, he was asked what the sermon was about. All he said was: “Sin.” And the preacher’s position on the subject? “He was against it,” came the curt reply.

Now, that would be Calvin Coolidge, our thirtieth president, who said not a word about what sin was, nor why we should be against it. But, then, he wasn’t asked. If he had been, he might have quoted Chesterton (they were contemporaries, after all), who was cleverer by far and almost as concise. “There is but one sin,” he said: “to call a green leaf gray, / Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.” A lie, in other words, which makes every sinner complicit with Satan, the Father of Lies, even as it causes the sun to shudder. And what we know about Satan, of course, is that he was doing it from the beginning. He’s a murderer, too, if we are to believe Jesus, who tells us as much in the Gospel of John (8:44): …

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