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Originally Posted by tonkovich
just for the hell (oops) of it, i must ask, where does this original sin concept come into play? in the womb?
in my experience, babies and toddlers and children seem pretty innocent to me.
am i missing something?
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St Augustine, probably the most influential proponent of original sin, said that original sin was passed to the next generation thru the act of sexual orgasm. Orgasm is the most selfish and irrational act we can do, hence dooming all children conceived thru an organism to a soul infected with sin.
It apparently never occurred to Augustine that women were better than men because they could conceive a child without having to orgasm. Or, perhaps it might be better to think that since women were not rational like men, they couldn't corrupt their rationality with an orgasm because they didn't have rationality to start with.