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It is striking that much of current Christian culture in America (and is this apparent in other parts of the world?) seems most appalled by sexual sins when they come out in the open, and either ignores or downplays other breaking of God’s commands. Why is this? Is it possible that the tempter wants us to focus on sex in order to get us to paper over hatred, gluttony, theft, and all the rest? I’ve said for years that a sin is a sin is a sin, and that there’s no reason to rank them from worst to least (so often with sexual sins as the worst). Scripture says that all sins are equally abhorrent to our pure and holy God. C. S. Lewis pointed out years ago that “all the worst pleasures are purely spiritual.”
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“I want to make it as clear as I possibly can that the centre of Christian morality is not here. If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasures of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and backbiting ; the pleasures of power, of hatred.” (p. 94-95)
Source: Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity. New York: Macmillan, 1960.