Original Sin: Christianity's Biggest Lie
Why Believing We're 'Born Broken' Is Tearing Our World Apart
The vicar stood ready to wet his finger and paint the sign of the cross on my newborn son’s forehead. And I was fuming.
This baby's life was a miracle. Born six weeks early, struggling to breathe, he’d spent the first ten days in an incubator, stuck with needles and pocked with sensors, a ventilation tube threaded down his tiny throat. Now he squirmed, in a Christening gown my mother had made, in the arms of a Christian minister. Who had just delivered a poisonous little sermon telling me, and the whole congregation, that my tiny son was full of sin.
The doctrine of Original Sin claims that humans are born fundamentally corrupted. That every human on earth, from birth, is damned by default. That our salvation is only possible through the Church.
But this is garbage. And it isn’t part of Christ’s teachings.
What Jesus taught is radically different. With "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21), he signalled our inherent connection to the divine. He p…
