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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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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Interestingly I am inclined to agree with your statement despite being Catholic. The reason why is because it's not the world you have an obligation to, but God and your neighbor, which I'd argue does not necessarily involve being interesting or useful to the world as most see it
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