Post Secularism
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Part II: Sinning Originally
Most educated people I know are uncomfortable with the idea of sin. They’re fairly sophisticated in their understanding of human psychology, and they recognize that people’s bad behavior is often rooted in childhood abuse or in chemical imbalances in the brain. Do these people who commit even the most heinous crimes choose to do evil,
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Part I: Sinning Originally
As an idea that lies at the very foundation of the Judeo-Christian narrative, original sin competes with other narratives, which for the sake of a short essay like this I’ll simplify into two categories: Eastern (as in Hindu & Buddhist) and Pagan (as in Greek, Germanic, and Celtic). All three basic narratives comprise many variations,