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A weird modernist-atheist version of original sin doctrine is to think of your supposed-paleo-adapted brain/body not as something to fetishize a return to, but as something to reshape and update for modernity. Until then, your paleo original sin makes you somewhat subhuman.
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allegorically perhaps... though christian theology seems to take a more moral tack to interpreting the allegory, in terms of knowledge of good/evil, capacity for sin/forgiveness/punishment etc. Basically moral childhood --> adulthood
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Same thing, evolutionarily speaking, from egocentric lizard brainstem to clubthumping forebear to prosocial sapiens. It's all analogical but fundamentalists contrive a regime of moronic control by forcing literalist readings.
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I read it as Dawn of Consciousness -> Crisis under unbearable weight of Consciousness. Essentially, moral agency. Paul's theology, though, does seem to have a sense of "paleo" instincts having hijacked our supercomputer brains. And we have to evolve to escape that dead-end.
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