Social Sin

What are two frequent responses to catastrophic suffering and tragedy?

• hope

• support

• apathy

• impasse

According to We Are Salt and Light, what is an appropriate response to social sin?

• recognize patterns and structures of social sin and collaborate across party lines

• relinquish all responsibility and agency

• donate all of your belonging, privilege, and power to others at the margins

• there is no way out of unjust structures and therefore no reason to respond

Social sin results in structures, laws, and policies that perpetuate widespread injustice.

• False

• True

Social sin can be understood as collective blindness.

• True

• False

God's plan of redemption has a social dimension.

• True

• False

According to Christian anthropology, human beings struggle with concupiscence.

• False

• True

Which of the following is not a social sin?

• exploitation of the poor

• ethnic cleansing

• trafficking

• eating too much food

Sin is deeply personal.

• False

• True

Individual sins do not lead to systemic sin.

• False

• True

Which commandments show how you should act in your relationship with others—reminders that personal morality must be lived through all of your human interactions?

• First Commandment

• First Three Commandments

• Last Seven Commandments

• Last Two Commandments