Or a salt shaker--that'd be cool.

[cosmolinguist]

Sarah was telling me about a scene in a movie. A priest is giving a sermon about how the young women should not do bad stuff like have sex (my English-major brain was thinking Right, because they're supposed to be the virtuous ones, the "angel in the home," the reason these post-Industrial Revolution men go off to factories and stuff like that! bah!).

Sarah's rendition went something like this, "He said, 'Do you want to be a garden'--because he was talking about them being 'gardens for Jesus,' or something--'or a vessel of sin?!' "

I laughed at that--besides seeming like a mixed metaphor, the vessel of sin part just sounded so funny. I imagined a jar or something, full of sin. What does sin look like? I bet it's black and sticky.

I asked Sarah if she felt like a garden for Jesus, among her admittedly-less-pure (in certain inarguable aspects) roommates, and she said she wondered if there were different degrees of vessels. I liked that idea, saying that I should be only a little one, since I haven't done anything very evil or in large quantities. "I'm like ... a Dixie cup of sin!" I asserted.

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[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

What does sin look like? I bet it's black and sticky.

Oh, no. Sin has to be appealing, because, well, it is. Perhaps sin looks like fine European dark chocolate.

Mmm, chocolate.

::runs for bag of bittersweet Kisses::

[cosmolinguist]

Chocolate wouldn't be as cool coming out of a salt shaker (though I like that idea ... and it's still a vessel!) but you make a very good case for it. Chocolate seems equivalent with sin, already.

They make bittersweet Kisses? How did I not know about this?--I love both things so much!

[cepcion.livejournal.com]

I saw this sign on a church once :

Forbidden fruits lead to sticky jams

I remember thinking ... "mmm! jam!", then a pause, then "aww, forbidden jam."

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, people should know better than to compare sin to tasty things.

Besides, all kinds of jam are sticky. It's like threatening someone by threatening them with wet water.