I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.
I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.
Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
Each religion has got their own way of making you feel like a victim. The Christians say "you are a sinner", and you better just zip up your trousers and give the money to the pope and we'll give you a room up in the hotel in the sky.
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.
To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.
Humanity is the sin of God.
There's no such thing as an original sin.
There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.
I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.
