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

See, that's where you've gone awry. On the assumption that humans did not evolve, but were put on the earth whole made and ripe before the animals came along, then it is 'original' (and even quite 'creative'). And actually, I think it's not sex that is the original sin, but 'lust'.

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>I thought they'd have something really original.