Originally Posted by kerry edwards

I love it, to sin means to be! Augustine had no influence on that did he?
One likely merit of Islam over Christianity is the absence of a doctrine of original sin. I'll venture the far fetched opinion that it gives Islam a leg up in the current war of civilizations. Christians can easily let capitalism and its corruptions run their course because that is the 'nature' of the sinful world. Islam tries to civilize the world because it's not willing to paint everything outside the church with the brush of original sin.