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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
Are Christians the only ones who believe in sin?
I think it might be more interesting to discuss the nature of sin. One of its interesting social features in my opinion, is the way in which the doctrine of sin undermines utopian visions of justice and equity. Certainly in its Augustinian version, it also stops deliberate efforts of social improvement by tagging on the idea of predestination. So sin seems to be in some serious tension with capitalism as well as socialism.
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Certainly not,but since you've mixed the fecal-stained,specious tarbrush of spiritualism with lucre that deserves a reply.
Let's examine the Utopian myth,started by one of Henry VIII's ministers,that virulent torturer of heretics,Sir Thomas More.
His Utopia was,as written a moderate socialist state,rigidly controlled by strong central authority and malefactors were dealt with severely. In More's Utopia everyone was assigned a task,work was mandatory and little time was left for leisure.
When the R.C. Church attempted to rehabilitate More's reputation and made a martyr out of him most of his works,{and he wrote many}were distorted and glossed over by papist apologists.
Unrestrained capitalism is the real sin,not some barren spiritual concept which is the invention of men,all created to maintain the existing social order of the few over the many.