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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“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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Yes exactly. In a different sense too: grace through faith is like an unlimited credit card your grandpa will pay off if you submit to him. Whereas grace through works is like a debit card you can only spend if you have funds
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I always tried to argue to Christians that the debit card is actually more honest and responsible, and doesn’t leave you with an open ended debt. But no one ever seemed to agree
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God condemns me for having a Human nature that he imbued me with, professes to try to save from by sacrificing himself to himself to satisfy arbitrary rules that he himself made up. Absurdly stupid storybook.
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Keeping it real for Virgil
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