Covenant's Guilty Conscience/Sins of Action and Ommision
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:43 pm
Spinning off here from another post.
Covenant's sins are both active and passive. There is the obvious issue of raping Lena, (and I concur that this is unforgivable.) He was responsible for Elena, in part at least, because the act of rape that conceived her tainted her spirit. She inherited her passion for Desecration from the act of violence that created her. And, of course his ruination of Lena cause the runination of Triock, and Atiaran, and Trell. The rest of his sins, in my opinion were mostly sins of ommission; he did not act when he should have. (Bear in mind that I am not using the word sin in any specific Judaeo-Christian sense; for me it is a good word for designating violations and failings.) The ommissions were a difficult point; I mean I can understand why he would feel guilt over them; but honestly I don't fault him as much for these as I do the rape and the consequences of it.
Covenant's sins are both active and passive. There is the obvious issue of raping Lena, (and I concur that this is unforgivable.) He was responsible for Elena, in part at least, because the act of rape that conceived her tainted her spirit. She inherited her passion for Desecration from the act of violence that created her. And, of course his ruination of Lena cause the runination of Triock, and Atiaran, and Trell. The rest of his sins, in my opinion were mostly sins of ommission; he did not act when he should have. (Bear in mind that I am not using the word sin in any specific Judaeo-Christian sense; for me it is a good word for designating violations and failings.) The ommissions were a difficult point; I mean I can understand why he would feel guilt over them; but honestly I don't fault him as much for these as I do the rape and the consequences of it.
i know but how did you manage to get