#623: Remembering our Sins
Why penitence *requires* joy.
Humans are both a notoriously forgetful lot and have a deep disposition toward optimism, which makes it easy to block out much of the suffering and sorrow we go through. If moms did not forget how excruciating childbirth feels, they may never undertake it again. The limitations on our memory are thus a kind of natural grace: while a bias to construe thi…
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