Citations:sin flattening

English citations of sin flattening

Noun: the doctrine that that all sin is equally wicked in God’s eyes

• 2021 May 3, Chrissy Stroop, “Josh Duggar Arrest For Child Sexual Abuse Material is Part of a Systemic Problem in Evangelicalism”, in Religion Dispatches‎^[1]:

  Patriarchy, that lack of consent, and “sin flattening”—that is, insisting that all “sin” is equivalently heinous in God’s eyes, which opens the door for evangelicals to compare consensual same-sex relationships to alcohol addiction or murder—makes for a toxic brew in which the abuse and silencing of women and children is simply inevitable.

• 2021 May 6, “Josh Duggar and the Predator’s Playbook”, in The Rogue Fundagelical‎^[2]:

  Sin flattening is the magic wand that waves away the serious consequences of rape, molestation, and child pornography. This pernicious teaching that all sins are equal in the sight of God provides cover for predators in the church.

• 2021 May 13, Kyle Dean Reynolds, “Spiritual Bypassing”, in Kyle Dean Reynolds‎^[3], archived from the original on May 13, 2021:

  Sin flattening can also be used as a refuge for bigotry and racism within church because, “Hey, I'm a sinner too,” or, “We're all here because we're not all the way there.”

• 2022 May 21, hoipolloi [username], “(CW&CSA) Josh & Anna 52: Sweeping Crackers for a Lower Sentence”, in Free Jinger‎^[4], page 2:

  This + the widespread fundie practice of sin-flattening, in which all evils are equally bad. Sin-flattening allows those who push this "doctrine" to equate, e.g., underpaying your tithes with pedophilia.