I think it a pity that Christianity has laid so much stress on it. We assert in church that we’re miserable sinners, but I don’t think we mean it, and what’s more I don’t think we are.
Mrs. Poole.
We are conceived in sin, and sin is part of our inheritance. Why did Christ die if not to atone for the sin of men?
John.
In war one gets to know very intimately all sorts of queer people. I don’t suppose I shall ever know any men so well as I knew the men in my company. They were honest and brave and cheerful, unselfish, good fellows; perhaps they swore a good deal, and they got drunk if they had the chance, and they had the glad eye for a pretty girl. But do you think they were sinners for that? I don’t.
Vicar.
Look in your own heart and say if you are not conscious of grievous, terrible sin.
John.
Frankly, I’m not.
Vicar.