Sin vs Standard or Ideas vs Individuals

Since I lured two readers with my notes on the Large Hadron Collider, which will likely end life as we know it in May, let me solidify my readership with some a post about sex.

"I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas, the public good, and doing what is best for the state of New York. But I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expect of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family."
-- Governor Spitzer of New York

I'm torn about whether to write about the first two sentences of the quote about Ideas vs Individuals or to write about Sin vs Standard.

I added the label "theology" to this because this is one of those questions where you have to frame it in a universal understanding of God and humanity.

Buechner on Incarnation

The Word become flesh. Ultimate Mystery born with a skull you could crush one-handed. Incarnation. It is not tame. It is not touching. It is not beautiful. It is uninhabitable terror. It is unthinkable darkness riven with unbearable light. Agonized laboring led to it, vast upheavals of intergalactic space, time split apart, a wrenching and tearing of the very sinews of reality itself. You can only cover your eyes and shudder before it, before this: "God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God... who for us and for our salvation," as the Nicene Creed puts it, "came down from heaven."

Came down. Only then do we dare uncover our eyes and see what we can see. It is the Resurrection and the Life she holds in her arms. It is the bitterness of death he takes at her breast.

Via Danno from Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary.