I am talking about a category they feel they must repudiate. There is so much in our culture that teaches us that we define our own sins, either individually or socially (i.e., we belong to a certain community that has established its own heritage of rights and wrongs). For somebody else to come in and say, “This is right” or “That’s wrong” sounds like manipulation from the outside, and they think that it fails to recognize the social origins of all constructions of good and evil. They sometimes
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