Other religions have similar logic though not codified quite as cleanly. My ‘no obligations’ tweet was basically a sort of anti religious axiom: you’re born with starter credit simply by virtue of being made of n eternal atoms.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480?s=21 …
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If you don’t need more than the starter credit to live out your life, you’re good. If you want or need more, or simply feel like it, you can *choose* to take on obligations to others as needed. But you start out at delta >0.
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This is a sort of life affirming alternative to the life-negating whine “I didn’t ask to be born.”
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There's a lot of problems with the debt metaphor https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/roundtable-how-does-the-atonement-work/ … Also fwiw, mormons don't believe in the original sin
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Another reason Mormons are the best Christians

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The neurophysiology of religion seems obviously more nuanced and interesting than that but that's a start.
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“I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sins, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...” ― Doug Stanhope
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