Guilt.

Jesus said: "'If you were blind, you would not have sin.  But now that you say, "We see" your sin remains.'" John 9:41 (NRSV)

The Baby-Boomers do not believe that their rock legends were Satanists - they are blind.

And they did not turn to Satan themselves. 

Therefore they are not guilty.

Generation X say that they know the rock legends of the 1960s and 1970s were in league with the devil as Ronald Reagan had told them.

But many of them turned to the devil in any case.

They acted knowingly - they say: "We see".

Therefore their guilt remains.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.] 

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