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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Rick Julian who wrote (25940)	11/15/1998 1:11:00 PM
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More re karma: It's hard not to see karma theory and Original Sin in the Christian tradition as twins. Their inner (psychological) function is to exculpate the God-force from any charges of indifference or cruelty, which would be awkward traits in a God-force also omnipotent and omniscient. In karma, past actions of the sufferer are to blame. The concept of Original Sin was explicitly developed by Augustine as an answer to the question of why innocent infants so often suffer horribly. His devised answer was that Adam had sinned and the taint of that sin passed down the generations. Thus Augustine was permitted to love God as unreservedly as he wanted to, and as he had before this little problem had begun to torment him. Karma and Orginal Sin are mental devices to allow credulists to continue in a desired, lulling, love-condition while in worshipping mode toward a God-force they must believe is simultaneously all powerful, all knowing, and constitutionally benign.

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