(February 16, 2011 at 12:06 pm)OnlyNatural Wrote: The idea of original sin is an unpleasant one, but I think the psychological damage it can do really depends on how it is indoctrinated, and how early in the child's life it's introduced. A child who is read a nice story about Adam and Eve by a loving mother will have an altogether different experience from a child raised in a 'fire and brimstone' type family whose parents think people are 'dirty little sinners.'
It's always puzzled me how Christians can tell their beautiful, innocent little children that they are "dirty little sinners".
I think it's disgusting doctrine to teach that we're all born sinners. An affront to humanity, in fact.
There are many intelligent Christians, no doubt, but an "intellectual Christian", is surely an oxymoron.
