Life & Wisdom Quote by Frank Dane

Preachers denounce sin as if it were a retail product on a well-stocked shelf: abundant, evenly distributed, and equally tempting to anyone who wanders by. Frank Dane’s line lands because it skewers a quiet hypocrisy baked into a lot of moral rhetoric: the assumption that wrongdoing is primarily a matter of choice, not circumstance. The joke is grammatical as much as ethical. “Available” is the language of markets, access, and privilege. Sliding that word into a sermon’s world exposes how often public moralizing ignores who actually gets options.

The intent feels less anti-religion than anti-complacency. Dane isn’t arguing that “sin” doesn’t exist; he’s mocking the way it’s preached, as though everyone is shopping from the same menu of vices. A preacher can thunder against adultery, gambling, or “laziness” without ever grappling with the social conditions that make some people far more vulnerable to certain harms, or far more punished for the same behavior. When sin is treated as universally “available,” accountability becomes blunt and convenient: blame the individual, absolve the system.

The subtext also cuts the other direction: some sins are only “available” if you have money, privacy, and power. The wealthy can indulge quietly; the poor get policed loudly. Dane’s wit turns a moral category into an economic one, forcing readers to see that what gets labeled “sin” is often tangled up with who gets to take risks, who gets caught, and who gets forgiven.