If experiential sinning were necessary for genuine moral understanding, then saints and morally exemplary persons would be epistemically deficient relative to habitual sinners, which is absurd.
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Acting in ways that violate moral or religious rules; doing something considered seriously wrong.
absurd(Camus 1955: 12)
The discrepancy between the human mind's demand for fundamental meaning and the world's failure to provide answers
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs