[extropy-chat] Original Sin was Bioethics Essay

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 23, 2005, at 11:17 PM, The Avantguardian wrote:

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> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 23, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:
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>>> Samantha Atkins wrote:
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>> It is not holy writ
>> or directly
>>
>>>> supported by  such.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Of course it is.
>>> We allegedly got kicked out of Eden for doing just
>>>
>> that and now you
>>
>>> want to compound the sin...
>>>
>
> Actually it WAS holy writ that knowledge was the
> Original Sin that got us kicked out of Eden.

Disobedience and shame according to myth along with fear we would  
become immortal.

> BUT the
> whole point of the xtian doctrine, as opposed to the
> ancient Judean tradition, was that the sacrifice of
> Jesus on the cross erased all our sins including the
> original one. Thus to a xtian, knowledge is no longer
> a sin. Did they even read their own book?
>

Mostly no.

- s