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On 24/04/2020 21:02, bill w wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Without original
sin people have nothing to be saved from - ergo, they
(Baptists, for instance) have to keep believing in it or their
religion fails. I hate this idea more than anything I can
think of at the moment. bill w</div>
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I can't emphasise enough how much I agree with this. The concept of
'original sin' is just about the most perverted, evil thing I've
ever come across. It is pure evil, and one of the things that made
me realise what religion (Judaeo-Christian, at least) really is.<br>
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On a more light-hearted note, I remember a comedian satirising the
absurd idea of jesus dying for our 'sins', saying something like "I
hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage". <br>
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You're guilty for something someone else supposedly did long ago,
then a complete stranger suffers to make up for it. Where is the
sense in that? The whole package is so absurd it hurts. And they
teach this to little kids! If that's not child abuse, I don't know
what is.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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