Original Sin – The Guilt Starter Pack

Ever feel like you were born with a spiritual parking ticket you didn't earn?

In this episode of Firelight Dialogues, Pat Kansoer pokes the theological hornet’s nest of Original Sin. We’re diving into that cheerful Western doctrine suggesting we’re all "pre-condemned" because of a prehistoric snack choice involving a fig leaf and a piece of fruit.

Pat strips away the robes and incense to look at how one 4th-century bishop—Augustine—took a story about a mess-up in a garden and turned it into a hereditary felony. We compare the "Western Guilt" operating system against its Abrahamic cousins, Judaism and Islam, to see who actually signed us up for this cosmic subscription model.

Is Original Sin a profound  ...