#original sin

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. ↗

— Desmond Harrington

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There's no such thing as an original sin. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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