Another way to frame the notion of sin is the way Sculptor's mother and my grandmother viewed waste - especially, btw, waste of food.
That is an archetypical attitude: conservation as the cardinal virtue of scarcity.
Wasting food is an offense against the family, the tribe, the future and thus life itself.
So we can say: a sin is any crime against life and nature.
That is an archetypical attitude: conservation as the cardinal virtue of scarcity.
Wasting food is an offense against the family, the tribe, the future and thus life itself.
So we can say: a sin is any crime against life and nature.