Most sin is not promoted openly, because words would result in truth which would defeat it. Sin cannot exist in the light of truth. Therefore, sin is promoted by example. This is sometimes called contagion of aberration.

Contagion indicates something automatic and subconscious about it. It's easy to pick up sin by observing it in others, because sin has a tendency to create itself.

Why does sin tend to create itself? This is a very important question which is difficult to answer. The underlying premise of sin is that if a person could prevail against others, it would solve his problems. To prevail, power is needed; so power is the positive reinforcement for the psychological conditioning of sin.

Power feels good, and therefore, it makes sin feel good—at least when there is not a counterforce created through moral values. Sin is a form of power when considering the most immediate effects. The motives for sin create a fixation on immediate effects and a disconnect from extended effects, because accountability lies with the extended effects. Corrupt persons become unable to extend from the immediate for this reason.

People get drawn into the sin game by not realizing what is happening. They trust persons with power, or they assume the majority must be right. They try to be like the persons around them, because that is how people learn to be people. They don't realize that they pick up corruptions from their surroundings by trying to be like the persons around them.

Specifically, corrupters teach people to be elitists, bigots, nihilists and dominators without the victims knowing that those attitudes are corruptions. They usually know that the words are associated with corruptions, but they don't know elitism is elitism when they see it, or nihilism is nihilism, etc. They haven't trained themselves to associate the reality with the words.

For example, a person will be considerate and respectful when dealing with friends, as is required of them; but they will usually scoff at an enemy, often with degradations. They learn two standards, which is a basic requirement for sin. Sin cannot exist as one standard for all the time everywhere. It must be a secondary standard reserved for enemies.

This is why Christ taught to love enemies as friends (Mat 5: 43-48). More often than not, enemies are victims of one's own sin, and they are often more moral than oneself. Hating is usually a method of repelling truth about one's own corruptions.

Instead of learning this moral principle, people usually learn that hating enemies is a method of getting rid of a problem. The problem results from truth which they cannot tolerate, and they compound the problem by degrading another person.

This standard is what occurs in the world, and people learn it from each other. This is what contagion of aberration is.

Corrupt persons with power (power mongers) set up conditions or set standards which promote corruptions instead of overcome them. They do this by stripping away rationality and replacing it with subjectivity which allows aberrations to flow without accountability. Sometimes, they convince people that reason and knowledge are corruptions. This standard is sometimes observed in Christian fundamentalism, where some nonsensical version of faith is supposedly superior to reason or knowledge. Real faith is not in conflict with reason or knowledge.

Once people are separated from the objective universe of knowledge, corruptions can be transferred between persons in a subconscious manner, which is contagion of aberration. Corrupters set up such conditions as a method of teaching people to sin without the openness and accountability needed for realizing the truth.