Not for all, but for many Christians, my true authenticity was dead and buried inside me. It was the source of longing and emptiness within myself that was like a child locked in a closet. I did not "know thyself," as the ancient Greek philosophers said was both the hardest things to do and yet the most important. Taught to believe I was a "born sinner" crippled my ability to fulfill my true design, convinced as I was that I could only be saved, and not just by anyone, but a God! Such a belief created a deep dependence on my Catholic Church, while my true self was locked like a lighting bug trapped in a jar. And as I grew up, that lightning bug became the traumatized and neglected boy buried in the tomb of a man who's identity was based on Catholicism, without which I was all flesh and no bones. My Catholicism had turned me into a scarecrow, in other words, my ego but a puppet operated by the hand of my "infallible religion." My desire to be more,
The doctrine of "the stain of original sin" is a doctrine taught by the Catholic Church. It is a doctrine that claims every human is born with the stain of "original sin" on their soul, thanks to the disobedience of Adam and Eve. First, God wiped out humanity with a flood for the effects of this sin. Then He had the bright idea of being born human, but withholding from himself the stain of such a sin. Then he killed his human avatar, since God himself, who is said to be able to do anything, is nevertheless incapable of actual death. So, he incarnated into a physical form so He could kill himself, and experience the process, meaningless as it is to Him. Life, from this perspective, is an offense to God. The doctrine of original sin clearly demonstrates this, for it means that every "gift of life" God gives is a gift God Himself is offended by. Nor does anyone who receives such a "gift" have the right, or the choice, to refuse it. Yet the gift