“Guilt.”

H,

In remembering the old days, can we truly say we are without blame? That we carry no guilt? We may escape the legal definition of guilty deeds, but we cannot deny the moral one. There is such a thing as sin, we believe, and if we are not guilty of crimes, we may be accountable for sin.

This is why we must not join the large chorus of men who cry out against the great revealing that “men are scum”. Didn’t we know this already? Isn’t this the human and fallen state? And as men, are we not aware of the tenuous and unfair rule of thumb that puts men in a position of power over the lives of even random women around them? Do we not already know this?

And the least Christian thing to do is to dislodge ourselves from the common pool of humanity and say:  it was not me. It was all of us.  It was our silence, our cowardice, our complicity, our trauma come alive, our acquiescence, our lack of empathy and our toxicity. We were raised to be hunters, but our Father is a lamb.