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Original Sin as
Christian Cult Fraud An Indictment of Paul
and Augustine By the druid mystic, Finn The
doctrine of Original Sin, first sketched by Paul the fanatic and hardened
into dogma by Augustine the zealot, is not merely a theological error. It is
a fraud — a fraud of colossal proportions, a fraud that reshaped the destiny
of Europe, and a fraud whose effects still imprison minds today. 1. The Cult Founder: Paul Saul of
Tarsus, styling himself Paul, was not content to be a humble follower
of the Galilean. He wanted absolute control. To achieve this, he invented a
universal sickness — sin as inheritance — and offered himself as broker of
its cure. “Through
one man sin entered the world, and so death passed to all” (Romans 5). With
this, Paul erased Jesus’ simple teaching: that the sick, not the well, need a
physician; that the righteous stand as righteous, and the sinner may repent.
Paul universalised guilt. There are no righteous, no innocents, no
exceptions. Everyone is condemned. The
purpose was transparent: once everyone is guilty, everyone is dependent. Paul
became not a teacher but a cult-master, demanding obedience on pain of
eternal damnation. 2. The Codifier: Augustine Three
centuries later, Augustine took Paul’s already dubious invention and turned
it into juridical machinery. Misreading the Latin mistranslation of Romans
5:12 — “in quo omnes peccaverunt” (“in whom
all sinned”) — he declared that Adam’s guilt was biologically inherited by
every human being. Thus,
even the newborn babe, pink in the cradle, was already damned. Unless hustled
into the Church’s font, it would sink into eternal fire. Augustine
himself wrote without shame: “Infants who depart this life without baptism
will indeed be in the mildest condemnation, but nevertheless in condemnation”
(Enchiridion 93). It is difficult
to exaggerate the cruelty. Jesus said, “To such as these belongs the kingdom
of heaven.” Augustine thundered back: To such as these belongs eternal
damnation. 3. The Insurance Scam of the Ages What is
this if not the structure of an insurance racket? 1. Invent
the danger: All humanity is guilty of Adam’s crime. 2. Monopolise
the cure: Only through the Church’s baptism and sacraments can
guilt be washed away. 3. Threaten
catastrophe for non-compliance: Refusal means eternal
torment. 4. Extract obedience
and wealth: In fear, whole populations bent their necks to the
bishop’s crozier. It was
not faith but fraud — a spiritually weaponised protection scheme. 4. The Political Usefulness of Original Sin This is
why the doctrine survived and spread. Original Sin was politically useful: ·
It created docility, convincing people they were
filth from birth. ·
It justified persecution: heretics, Jews, pagans,
all were condemned unless they bent the knee. ·
It rationalised torture and execution: after all,
guilty flesh deserved punishment. From
Augustine’s pulpit flowed the blood of the Inquisition, the fires of the
stake, the chains of the dungeon. Original Sin was the theological license
for Christian terror. 5. The Political Uselessness of Original Goodness By
contrast, the doctrine of Original Goodness, defended by Pelagius and
recovered in our own time by the modern druid Finn, has no political utility
for tyrants. Original Goodness
declares that every creature, human and animal alike, is born good —
good because to be born at all is to have survived nature’s fierce lottery.
Infants are not damned; they are living proof of nature’s fitness. Animals
are not soulless brutes; they too carry the triumph of survival. This
truth liberates, but it does not enslave. It frees people from guilt but
gives no leverage to bishops, inquisitors, or emperors. For that very reason,
it was politically useless. Pelagius was anathematised, and Finn is ignored. 6. The Criminal Fraud Exposed Let us
name it for what it is: Paul and Augustine’s doctrine of Original Sin was not
piety but a criminal fraud on a sheer unimaginable scale. It
fabricated guilt to create dependence, enslaved minds under threat of eternal
damnation, and justified the abomination of centuries of incarceration,
torture, murder, robbery and rape, enslavement and the denial of human
rights. Original
Sin became the means of the greatest spiritual, thereafter wealth scam in
history: an insurance scheme in which the priesthood first invented the fire,
then sold the fire extinguisher. 7. The Verdict Against
this stands the suppressed truth: Original Goodness. To be
born is to have won life’s brutal lottery. To be alive is already to be good.
Failure comes later, not before birth. Humanity does not need to be redeemed
from an imaginary ancestral crime. It needs only to live, to adapt, to choose
wisely. Paul and
Augustine’s fraud shackled and brutalised billions. Pelagius was silenced,
Finn ignored. But the truth remains: the newborn does not need a priest’s
blessing to be whole, to be complete, to be perfect. The
greatest crime of the Christian Church and its utterly corrupt leaders was to
tell humanity that it was damned by default. The greatest liberation is to
remember that all are good by birth. |