Accountability

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Most people deny that they're fleeing from accountability. But that's what it is.

The most religious of us wash ourselves clean through repentance. Everyone is accountable to God but the clever ones of us hang their (our) sins upon the sky. In the process they (we) lose the guilt of what they (we) have done. "Hey, we're accountable sure but look how happy we are, we've repented and are now filled with the joys of The Holy Spirit."

Let's try and treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves, when we fail to do that, let's apologise, move on, and try to learn from our mistakes and not do it again. People of all religions, even those of no faith, can practise this, sometimes it is hard to do, but it is easy to know what to do.