Sin creates an obsession with control. It creates control freaks. But corrupters will say, not if sin is in your values. If murder, thievery and fraud are virtues, there is no such thing as sin.

So we must replace the word sin with something which is not my values. If a person does something (good, bad or indifferent) which causes him to become a control freak, we will define it as sin.

Then there’s another problem. If you are a scientist who believes everything must have cause-and-effect relationships (which we disagree with) you need a cause-and-effect explanation. Glad you agree; it’s entirely what I do, why I went into science and why I call myself a scientist. Of course, you didn’t say that, it’s just what you should have said.

Truism 1: If a person does something which he needs to conceal, deny and rationalize—in a universal way—it’s sin. The qualification, universal, is needed due to threats from evil which create a limited and temporary need to conceal, deny and rationalize. It could be a virtue to conceal, deny and rationalize under a threat of evil. Doing so is sometimes called a white lie. There is no such thing as a white lie. The threat of evil may require lies, but it makes them even blacker. They just belong to the evil which makes them necessary. The difference is important, because the promoters of the white lie ethic will claim that all of their lying is white, when there is no threat of evil.

There is a type of behavior which has to be concealed, denied and rationalized when there is no threat of evil. It needs to be concealed, denied and rationalized in a universal way. Again, there is the exception. Corrupters will brag about their corruptions to other corrupters, but they don’t want everyone to know about it.

This truism is without exception, when properly described, because even the most evil person in existence cannot define himself to everyone else as a destroyer and threat to their existence. He has to portray himself as a do-gooder and exaggerate the image to compensate for the truth which is the opposite of the image.

Sin, which equals corruption, which equals destructivity, must be concealed, denied and rationalized, because it is a threat to everyone else’s existence, and they will react by doing something about it.

There are, then, two reactions. Reaction one is the need for perpetrators to conceal, deny and rationalize destructive behavior. Reaction two is the need by everyone else to protect themselves from destructive behavior.

These reactions create forces. The need to conceal, deny and rationalize is a force in the mind. It is a force, because it creates a necessity which never goes away. The need for everyone else to protect themselves from the destructivity is a universal force.

To summarize, every sin creates a force in the mind which is opposed by a universal force. The universal force is basically justice. If those forces don’t exist, it’s virtue. There is nothing arbitrary about it; there are no values shaping the result. Someone either creates those forces or they don’t.

So why do forces in the mind create control freaks? It starts with stupidity. Persons who are not too bright assume that if they could prevail against others, it would solve their problems. There is no constructive way to prevail against others. Being destructive, prevailing creates forces in the mind of the perpetrator, and the universe lashes back. But instead of seeing something wrong, the not-so-bright increase their determination to prevail. It takes sin to do so. All significant sin stems from that result.

To prevail against someone, they must be subdued, which requires degradation. To get something out of it is exploitation. To carry it to extremes is oppression. Therefore, all significant sin is manifested as domination, degradation, exploitation and oppression. The sin doesn’t stem from necessity; it stems from stupidity and resulting forces in the mind. Sin isn’t a necessary price to pay for solving problems; it’s destructivity based on irrationality.

The forces, being the basis of all destructivity, were the underlying cause of Nazism. The almost subconscious basis of Nazism was that sin is the only responsible way to run a society. Of course, there is nothing necessary or constructive about it.