Scrubbing away and clearing off the things that piled up. Something about this physical act of cleaning off and clearing out helps me to usher in the new year. But none of them can be adequately discussed with oversimplified labels like “clean” and “dirty. New Year Clean Slate Teach us to realize how short our lives are. a slate on which the courses steered by a ship (and distances run) were recorded, but have been wiped clean after being e. There are plenty of complicated moral problems surrounding food, among them animal welfare, labor rights, and environmental protection. Why should we be OK with describing food-another one of life’s fundamental, complicated pleasures-in similarly loaded terms?Ĭalling your latest low-cal, gluten-free diet a “clean eating challenge” gives it a misplaced and emotionally charged moral cast. We recoil when religious fundamentalists compare a woman who has had sex with multiple partners to a dirty stick of gum. Progressive people generally agree that describing the complex, deep-seated pleasures of sexuality as “dirty” is both inaccurate and psychologically harmful to impressionable minds. When we are free from that, the sky is the limit to what Christ can do in our heart through the Holy Spirit. What holds us back in our lack of faith and unforgiven sin. God wants to see you progress in your walk with Him this year. The burden of the past is lifted, and we can move forward. Notions of clean and dirty are inextricably tied up with notions of right and wrong as Steven Pinker in particular has argued, purity is a universal theme of human moral codes. A clean slate gives us a new perspective. Even more to the point, as Kirby acknowledges, “clean” eating assigns moral value where none exists (since, contrary to popular belief, dieting does not actually make you a better person).
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