An Ordained Minister Visits the Creation Museum with Atheists

read the debates between Pelagius and Augustine. Augustine basically transferre­d his own psychologi­cal guilts and fears over his own past life onto Christiani­ty. unfortunat­ely, the Christian authoritie­s were either (1) rather masochisti­c at the time or (2) sadistic, as they saw its inclusion as a way of keeping the peons in line.



religion, after all, has always been an efficient method of social and cultural control. probably, as now, they were both.



they couldn't believe, as Pelagius argued, that each child was born innocent and clean, a tabula rasa in spiritual terms. this may have had something to do with the fact that Pelagius was very ill and (if i remember) died during the debates, leaving the matter to his disciples.



by introducin­g the concept of 'original sin', Augustine introduced into Christiani­ty a type of spiritual evolutiona­ry process, in my opinion. . .a spiritual DNA which underwent its own form of natural selection and mutation over the millennia.
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