Oh, also:
This is how I interpret Original Sin. The stuff about the fruit is just mythology.
Each of us is born guilty, in a worldly sense. When you get pushed out of the womb, the first thing you touch is the doctor's rubber glove. And that glove is affordable in the US because the CIA overthrew the government of Guatemala in order to keep the rubber cheap. Your first bassinet was assembled by slaves in China. And then there's the gas your parents used to drive you home.
Before you're even awake, you're completely mixed up in a web of oppression and horror, and YOU ARE BENEFITTING FROM IT.
So the question is, how do we discharge that guilt, even though we didn't consciously take it on?
This is how I interpret Original Sin. The stuff about the fruit is just mythology.
Each of us is born guilty, in a worldly sense. When you get pushed out of the womb, the first thing you touch is the doctor's rubber glove. And that glove is affordable in the US because the CIA overthrew the government of Guatemala in order to keep the rubber cheap. Your first bassinet was assembled by slaves in China. And then there's the gas your parents used to drive you home.
Before you're even awake, you're completely mixed up in a web of oppression and horror, and YOU ARE BENEFITTING FROM IT.
So the question is, how do we discharge that guilt, even though we didn't consciously take it on?
