Friday, May 28, 2004
(1:18 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional
It's that time again -- time to unburden your soul of all the filth and loathsomeness it has accumulated in the last week. Time to dissolve the chains of sin in the acidic waters of a HaloScan comment box.
Time, in short, to mention that petty crime you committed at work.
My crime this week was simple: I took a two-hour lunch without asking my manager for permission. Business was slow, I was bored, and I just decided that that was what I was going to do. I did, however, reflect the change on my hours.
A second sin. I drank coffee to excess one day: three cups. It gave me a stomach ache. My body is, after all, a temple of the Holy Spirit, as Paul says, so anything I do to harm it must be a sin -- this, coming from the leading popularizer of a religion that worships a man who was crucified and that generally encouraged martyrdom in its early years.
