The idea of original sin plus the idea of Jesus having already paid for your sins is fascinating. It’s like being born with a bad credit score, being extended credit anyway, expected to fail at paying off debts, and have those debts be discharged in a bankruptcy proceeding in 1BC
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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.
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You have no obligation to be useful or interesting to the world.
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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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