Please correct me if I’m wrong, but even in Judaism the (widely accepted) lesson is to improve as an individual, even if the overall trend is a decline. In another phrasing—the individual should try to diminish the generational degradation of virtue as much as possible. And the penance comes inevitably because we will inevitably sin SOME, because we’re imperfect humans.
Even so, a very real danger remains of taking this penance as a goal in its own right, and forgetting that we primarily need to improve.
All that said, I enthusiastically committed to “Tsuyoku Naritai”, and to be as Science rather than as Torah :)
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but even in Judaism the (widely accepted) lesson is to improve as an individual, even if the overall trend is a decline. In another phrasing—the individual should try to diminish the generational degradation of virtue as much as possible. And the penance comes inevitably because we will inevitably sin SOME, because we’re imperfect humans. Even so, a very real danger remains of taking this penance as a goal in its own right, and forgetting that we primarily need to improve. All that said, I enthusiastically committed to “Tsuyoku Naritai”, and to be as Science rather than as Torah :)