A New Sin for Your Sin List: Human Composting

If one wants a good eye roll, read any one of the many columns each day on Christian sites that use, or paraphrase, the most common one in all of Christianity, "What this means is..." There is a dufus who describes himself as a Christian intellectual who today blasted in modern concept of human composting. There are so many sins it's hard pound a new one into the sin box. 

I believe use of "sealed" vaults that caskets are put in is a practice that came along in my lifetime. I remember seeing disturbing advertisements when I was young of a grieving woman with a picture of what supposedly is in her mind--a casket in the ground when it was raining. I wonder if religion was part of selling those expensive burial vaults. I've read that when they are dug up for various reasons they are all leaking. If the idea was to protect the body so it could be air mailed to heaven there won't be anything left, buried in a vault or left to compost in the soil. 

Cremation now accounts for something like half body disposals. Perhaps cremation became popular with as the influence of Christianity slipped. 

I can't remember all the Christian rituals. The ones that come to mind are all bizarre. There is baptism and communion. The wedding and the funeral come to mind. We all know there is anger between the full emersion baptism and the fake one I must have been given. Maybe full emersion washes off all the sin and mine left me with a lot of sin I have never washed off. Really, I'm grateful for that, I like to sin.

Maybe the last sin I will enjoy is being composted.