The Original Sin. (Religion)

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Originally Posted by Elyannia

Are you talking about like celebrities? Or in movies? I don't really watch very many movies or follow celebrities so maybe some examples would be nice =].

There're just references here and there throughout movies and television that mention it, or talk about it. Off the top of my head, "The Three Musketeers" has a woman getting all horny when Aramis starts reading from the Genesis passage, and mentions how talking about "original sin" makes her become impassioned, etc. etc. There's even a film called "Original Sin" w/Angelina Jolie all about sex (or mostly, at least; I've never seen it, but I know what it's about). I really don't understand the concept, or where it came from. I've gotta look this up more.

EDIT: Ok, I get it. The concept was founded by Augustine, and is mostly found in some forms of Catholic doctrine (though not in the Catechism; I've read it twice and never found anything like that). PsychologyToday said, "Adam's sin was carnal knowledge." Britannica also makes a subtle reference to it in saying that the "knowledge of good and evil" was "a classic expression for all knowledge."

But I can't understand what any of these sources, including Augustine, would be thinking, since the chapter just before says,

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it..."

-From Gen. 1:28

The act they both committed wasn't done simultaneously, since Adam came later and Eve gave him the "fruit"... Original sin, IMO, is just disobedience.