I’m glad someone has noticed that I have skipped psalm 50 in the series. I’ve jumped from 49 to 51 without scruple. Poor 50. What’s wrong with it? It is no less than the famous Miserere. A fine psalm at its time, and a standing inspiration for composers and for sinners in all ages. But you already know my disagreement with the guilt complex that has been hammered into us as a fertile ground for all kinds of manipulation through fear and inferiority throughout our lives. Starting from birth. This psalm says:

“From my birth I have been a sinner,
in sin did my mother conceive me.”

To call a sinner the most innocent and tender creature in the world as is a newborn child is not acceptable to me. It is an insult and a conditioning for life. Formerly they baptised us shortly after birth for fear we could die before baptism and prevented from entering heaven. They even invented Limbo. Now they have scratched it off, so that even an unbaptised child can go to heaven. ¿Will they go as newly conceived sinners? Poor little things. If the gates of heaven have opened before an innocent baby, let as take away from them the abuse too.

But then I do like the closing verses of the psalm:

“Restore to me the joy of your deliverance
and grant me a willing spirit to uphold me.”