Payne: Millennials New 'Sins'

"If you speak to the average 20-something or Millennial about the concept of sin," writes Daniel Payne @ thefederalist.com, "you may be treated to a kind of quasi-Unitarian dismissal of the concept, a sort of uncomfortable rejection of the notion of ecclesiastical proscription in any sense: 'I’m very spiritual,' you’ll hear a lot, 'but not religious'."

Yet the Millennials, having sloughed off the religious notions of their parents and grandparents—at least one-third of Generation Yers are more or less without religion—have taken it upon themselves to adopt a new set of mandates and dictates to guide their lives.

Call them the “new sins,” a number of commandments by which one might stay on the narrow way. The old interdictions now cast aside, a new series of injunctions must be obeyed: and like most religions and denominations, adherence to these commandments is held sacrosanct, any deviation from them fairly blasphemous.

Read The New Sins of 'Nonjudgmental' Millennials for Payne's take on Millennials'

• climate change dogma;
• the church of gay sex; and
• the priestly class of Washington DC.