>>> Belief in an afterlife is strictly optional and there's no notion of salvation or original sin.
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>>I find it particularly hard to understand how a sin can be original. It's all been done over and over :).
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>"Original sin" is the best concoction of them all - universally applicable to everyone so everyone is a possible recruit.
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>But I've always wondered why it is that pastors/priests preach 'save it for marriage'. Shouldn't they be preaching save it forever????... thus ending original sin for good!!!

So sex is the original sin? I don't see anything original in that. It's been done before humans evolved.

I thought they'd have something really original.