does something, and then thinks they can order a peer of theirs to never speak of it. If you did a stupid thing, you have to live with the consequences, rather than intimidate people, where does it end?
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Quoting from a favorite book:
'(Luther) says: Adam's sin has corrupted me in my essence, I am unclean, I sin greatly, but I trust in You, O my God, and You take me and save me just as I am, covering me with Your Son's cloak. This is what he himself says:
Have we sinned? "Jesus Christ stoops," says Luther, "and lets the sinner jump on his back and so saves him from death and the gaoler, that is what Christ is for." "What a consolation for pious souls to put Him on like this and wrap Him in my sins, your sins, the sins of the whole universe, and consider Him thus bearing all our sins." "When you will see that your sins cleave to Him, then you will be safe from sin, death, and hell. Christianity is nothing but a continual exercise in feeling that you have no sin although you sin, but that your sins are thrown on Christ [-somewhat slanderous you might say-]. It is enough to know the Lamb who bears the sins of the world; sin cannot detach us from Him, ... Is not that good news if, when someone is full of sins, the Gospel comes and tells him: Have confidence and believe and henceforth your sins are remitted? Once this stop is pulled out, the sins are forgiven; there is nothing more to wait for."
Maritain, Jacques. "Three Reformers: Luther-Descartes-Rousseau" New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1929.
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