Captain America

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15. Holy Cow, H2O Man - this is a revelation! THIS in particular:

Moore convinced himself that two sentences from Romans, found in chapter 7, lines 17 and 20, identify the real cause: “It is no longer I who am doing this evil, but the sin living in me. ...And if I do what I don't want to do, it is not I who do it, but the sin which lives in me.” The more out of touch Moore becomes with the reality of his own disgusting self, the more those Feature 1 ideas convince him that it is his role to become a modern-day prophet from the Old Testicle. And, indeed, we see how that delusional self-concept – a man who claims the moral authority to speak for “God,” and to judge others – has translated into his behaviors throughout his adulthood.

OMG! I have been known to use a couple of Scripture passages to illustrate a point, but I never ran across Romans 7! Never got that far. You get as far as Paul's 1 Corinthians and you can easily wind up spending your entire academic career studying just that. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the quote in Romans is the source of justification for not taking responsibility For. What. One. Did. ! The Gospel of Blame-Game. That sounds like what a little kid does - who develops for him/herself an imaginary friend. Every time he/she misbehaves, it really wasn't him/her misbehaving. The imaginary friend did it!

Excellent, thought-provoking, and highly illuminating essay, H2O Man!