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Original Sin by P. D. James

Original Sin
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Author: P. D. James
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571248691
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Release Date: 2008-11-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director, Gerard Etienne, have made him dangerous enemies - a discarded mistress, a neglected and humiliated author, and rebellious colleagues and staff. When Gerard's body is discovered bizarrely desecrated, there is no shortage of suspects and Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a murderer who is prepared to strike again. P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders, once again explores the mysterious, strong and intense emotions responsible for the unique crime of murder, with authority and sensitivity. Original Sin is set in the literary world of London and possesses all of the qualities which distinguish P.D. James as a novelist. P.D. James has been influential as a crime writer for many years and her writing is often compared to the work of authors such as Val Mcdermid, Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.


Original Sin by Henri Blocher

Original Sin
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Author: Henri Blocher
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 083082605X
Size: 33.62 MB
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Release Date: 2000-10-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Henri Blocher offers a philosophically sophisticated treatment of the biblical evidence for original sin, interacting with the best theological thinking on the subject and showing that while the nature of original sin is a mystery only belief in it makes sense of evil and wrongdoing.


Original Sin by Tatha Wiley

Original Sin
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Author: Tatha Wiley
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809141289
Size: 26.67 MB
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Release Date: 2002
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Explores the origins, development and interpretations¿past and present¿of this conflicting yet fundamental Christian doctrine .


Adam The Fall And Original Sin by Michael R. E. Reeves

Original Sin
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Author: Michael R. E. Reeves
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 144124641X
Size: 18.75 MB
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Release Date: 2014-10-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Adam The Fall And Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Christian doctrines of original sin and the historical fall of Adam have been in retreat since the rise of modernity. Here leading scholars present a theological, biblical, and scientific case for the necessity of belief in original sin and the historicity of Adam and Eve in response to contemporary challenges. Representing various Christian traditions, the contributors shed light on recent debates as they present the traditional doctrine of original sin as orthodox, evangelical, and the most theologically mature and cogent synthesis of the biblical witness. This fresh look at a heated topic in evangelical circles will appeal to professors, students, and readers interested in the creation-evolution debate.


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Original Sin
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Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9780785190691
Size: 44.59 MB
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Release Date: 2014-11-18
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Who shot the Watcher? Uatu, the mysterious space-god who's been watching mankind from the moon for as long as we can remember...is dead. Thus begins the greatest murder mystery in Marvel history! As Nick Fury leads the heroes of the Marvel Universe in an investigati on, other forces are marshaling and other questi ons are arising. Why is Black Panther gathering a secret team of his own, including Emma Frost, the Punisher and Dr. Strange? Who is the Unseen? What was stolen from the Watcher's lair? Fury's cosmic manhunt leads to the far corners of the universe and beyond, but just when the Avengers think they've cornered their murderer...everything explodes, unleashing the Marvel Universe's greatest secrets and rocking the heroes to their core! What did the Watcher see? What was the Original Sin? COLLECTING: Point One 1 (Watcher story), Original Sin 0-8, Original Sins 1-5, Original Sin Annual 1, Original Sin: Secret Avengers Infinite Comic 1-2


The Story Of Original Sin by John Toews

Original Sin
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Author: John Toews
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498271030
Size: 70.45 MB
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Release Date: 2013-01-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Story Of Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book traces the history of the interpretation of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 through the biblical period and the church fathers until Augustine. It explains the emergence of the doctrine of original sin with the theology of Augustine in the late fourth century on the basis of a mistranslation of the Greek text of Romans 5:12. The book suggests that it is time to move past Augustine's theology of sin and embrace a different theology of sin that is both more biblical and makes more sense in the postmodern West and in the developing world.


The Transmission Of Sin by Pier Franco Beatrice

Original Sin
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Author: Pier Franco Beatrice
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751412
Size: 25.25 MB
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Release Date: 2013-05-23
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Transmission Of Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Originally published in Italian in 1978, Pier Franco Beatrice's The Transmission of Sin is a study of the origins of the doctrine of original sin, one of the most important teachings of the Catholic Church.


Original Sin by Allison Brennan

Original Sin
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Author: Allison Brennan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345519167
Size: 22.42 MB
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Release Date: 2010-01-26
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O’Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira’s global search has led her to a small California town that’s about to become hell on earth. Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can’t explain, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper joins Moira’s dangerous quest. But Fiona is one devilish step ahead. Hungry for greater power, eternal youth, and stunning beauty, the sorceress is unleashing upon the mortal world the living incarnations of the Seven Deadly Sins. Together with a demonologist, a tough female sheriff, and a pair of star-crossed teenagers, Moira and Rafe are humanity’s last chance to snatch salvation from the howling jaws of damnation.


America S Original Sin by Jim Wallis

Original Sin
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Author: Jim Wallis
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493403486
Size: 53.32 MB
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Release Date: 2016-01-12
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF America S Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a faith that commands racial justice. Yet as recent tragedies confirm, we continue to suffer from the legacy of racism. The old patterns of white privilege are colliding with the changing demographics of a diverse nation. The church has been slow to respond, and Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week. In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so ingrained in American society. He speaks candidly to Christians--particularly white Christians--urging them to cross a new bridge toward racial justice and healing. Whenever divided cultures and gridlocked power structures fail to end systemic sin, faith communities can help lead the way to grassroots change. Probing yet positive, biblically rooted yet highly practical, this book shows people of faith how they can work together to overcome the embedded racism in America, galvanizing a movement to cross the bridge to a multiracial church and a new America.


Original Sin by Alan Jacobs

Original Sin
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Author: Alan Jacobs
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061846880
Size: 43.54 MB
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Release Date: 2009-10-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Essayist and biographer Alan Jacobs introduces us to the world of original sin, which he describes as not only a profound idea but a necessary one. As G. K. Chesterton explains, "Only with original sin can we at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." Do we arrive in this world predisposed to evil? St. Augustine passionately argued that we do; his opponents thought the notion was an insult to a good God. Ever since Augustine, the church has taught the doctrine of original sin, which is the idea that we are not born innocent, but as babes we are corrupt, guilty, and worthy of condemnation. Thus started a debate that has raged for centuries and done much to shape Western civilization. Perhaps no Christian doctrine is more controversial; perhaps none is more consequential. Blaise Pascal claimed that "but for this mystery, the most incomprehensible of all, we remain incomprehensible to ourselves." Chesterton affirmed it as the only provable Christian doctrine. Modern scholars assail the idea as baleful and pernicious. But whether or not we believe in original sin, the idea has shaped our most fundamental institutions—our political structures, how we teach and raise our young, and, perhaps most pervasively of all, how we understand ourselves. In Original Sin, Alan Jacobs takes readers on a sweeping tour of the idea of original sin, its origins, its history, and its proponents and opponents. And he leaves us better prepared to answer one of the most important questions of all: Are we really, all of us, bad to the bone?


The Great Christian Doctrine Of Original Sin Defended by Jonathan Edwards

Original Sin
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Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Release Date: 1766
Category: Sin, Original
Language: en
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Download PDF The Great Christian Doctrine Of Original Sin Defended eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.


Genetics Of Original Sin by Christian de Duve

Original Sin
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Author: Christian de Duve
Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738147542
Size: 78.40 MB
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Release Date: 2009-04-13
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Genetics Of Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “In this book I examine the extraordinary saga of life on Earth in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries. This saga has resulted in the extraordinary success of our species, and in the mortal threats that it has posed for the future. By favoring immediate benefits, to the detriment, sometimes, of long-term advantages, natural selection, in my opinion, is the source of this remarkable success, but also of the perils that come out of it. Modern science has established the implausibility of the Biblical tale for the origins of human beings; it has not, however, invalidated the intuition that inspired it. Humanity is, infact, tainted by an intrinsic defect, by a genetic “original sin,” that threatens to lead to its demise. We do indeed need redemption to save us, but it can only come from humanity itself. We must find in the resources of our minds a wisdom that is not inscribed in our genes.” C. de D. The book of a great biologist, but also of a moralist. Christian de Duve, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, is professor emeritus at the Université catholique de Louvain and at Rockefeller University in New York. He is the author of À l'écoute du vivant (2002) and of Singularités (2005) [Singularities: Landmarks on the Pathways of Life], both best-sellers.


Original Sin by Jonathan Edwards

Original Sin
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Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300011982
Size: 36.62 MB
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Release Date: 1970
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The controversy over human deprivation which raged throughout the eighteenth century was no mere intramural squabble among theologians but an important phase of the evolution in Western man's estimate of his nature and potentialities. By the time Jonathan Edwards entered the lists to champion the hated doctrine of original sin, he saw himself as not only defending a particular dogma but also combating an increasingly dominant drift of opinion which had already engulfed much of Europe and was encroaching dangerously upon America. John Taylor's treatise was perhaps the boldest and most impressive assault on the doctrine which more than any other contradicted the Enlightenment view of man, and it haunted Edwards throughout all the pressing duties and personal hardships of the years just before and during his sojourn at Stockbridge. Ultimately, he was able to develop a thorough rebuttal of Taylor which focused on three major issues: the fact and nature of original sin, its cause and transmission, and God's responsibility for man's sinfulness. First published in 1758, The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended went though at least 13 separate editions and was included in all collected editions of Edwards' works. The text of the first edition has now been brought into accord with the principles of the Yale Edition, making full use of all relevant manuscript materials. Mr. Holbrook's comprehensive Introduction and annotations provide detailed information about the sources, development, and reception of the work. Clyde A. Holbrook is William H. Danforth Professor of Religion at Oberlin College.


Original Sin In Augustine S Confessions by Paul Rigby

Original Sin
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Author: Paul Rigby
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Release Date: 1987
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin In Augustine S Confessions eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The idea of original sin owes its development more to Augustine than to any other individual. We cannot understand this idea, much less believe it, unless we consider his primary motive for developing it. His 'Confessions', a masterpiece of personal reflection, reveals the psychological dynamic that renders a free person's implication in social and historical evil irreversible from the beginning. The author traces this interior bondage of the will through Augustine's own life from his infancy and youth, through his dramatic conversion, to his mature years of reflection and ministry as bishop. It presents original sin not only autobiographically, but also historically, as the first and universal sin of mankind, and primordially, as the fundamental cause and meaning at the root of all moral impotence and sin. This volume argues that the doctrine of original sin stands together with the doctrine of grace as the foundation of Augustine's teachings on confession and salvation; it rejects a recent development in Augustine studies that reduces Augustine's doctrine of original sin to an ancillary, polemical role as a weapon in the arsenal against Pelagian voluntarism. Above all, it allows this doctrine to live now as it did for Augustine, by permitting us to observe as he reflects theologically upon his personal experience of God." [Book jacket].


The Joy Of Being Wrong by James Alison

Original Sin
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Author: James Alison
Publisher: Herder & Herder
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Release Date: 1998
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Joy Of Being Wrong eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This original work of theological anthropology looks at original sin in the light of the Resurrection. It is based on the conviction that the doctrine of original sin is a vital perspective on what it is to be human when seen with Resurrection eyes. From this point of view, one is able to read all the major doctrines of Christianity from the order of discovery, and forgiveness becomes the way of transformation.


In Adam S Fall by Ian A. McFarland

Original Sin
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Author: Ian A. McFarland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444351656
Size: 66.29 MB
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Release Date: 2011-06-24
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF In Adam S Fall eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This engaging and scholarly book offers refreshingly original insights into the contemporary relevance of the Christian doctrine of original sin – one that has inspired fierce debate for the last two millennia. Challenges the many prevailing opinions about the Christian doctrine of original sin, arguing that it is not only theological defensible, but stimulating and productive for a life of faith Shows how it is possible to affirm the universality of sin without losing sight of the distinct ways in which individuals both participate in and suffer the consequences of sinful behavior Balances historic and contemporary criticism with original theological arguments; combining the substance of a traditional Augustinian doctrine of sin with the pastoral and social concerns of contemporary contextual theologies Provides a depth and range of engagement with contemporary criticism of traditional doctrine that is lacking in other recent treatments of the topic


Original Sin And The Fall by J. B. Stump

Original Sin
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Author: J. B. Stump
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830852875
Size: 61.14 MB
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Release Date: 2020-06-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Original Sin And The Fall eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Throughout the church's history, Christians have disagreed over many particular questions surrounding humanity's fall. In this Spectrum Multiview book contributors present five views on these questions—Augustinian-Reformed, Moderate Reformed, Wesleyan, Eastern Orthodox, and a Reconceived view—offering both an articulation of their own view and responses to the others.


Aquinas Original Sin And The Challenge Of Evolution by Daniel W. Houck

Original Sin
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Author: Daniel W. Houck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493696
Size: 58.61 MB
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Release Date: 2020-03-12
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Aquinas Original Sin And The Challenge Of Evolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Drawing on Aquinas, Houck proposes a groundbreaking theory of original sin that is theologically robust and consonant with evolutionary theory.


Original Sin by David Hillman

Original Sin
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Author: David Hillman
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
ISBN: 1579511449
Size: 36.98 MB
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Release Date: 2012-10-16
Category: Religion
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Download PDF Original Sin eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. While many have written about Catholic Priest abuse of boys, this book draws evidence from ancient texts - written in Latin & Sanskrit - to reveal the political roots of the ritual sexual abuse of boys and the drugging of adolescent girls to convert them into esteemed "Oracles" of antiquity.ORIGINAL SIN is an investigation of sacred Christian mysteries of antiquity to show the historic link between the use of drugs and ritualized sex embedded in Western religion.ORIGINAL SIN is an investigation of the first acts of pedophilia within the Christian church. It is a book about the promotion and defense of child rape as a sacred Christian mystery.The West's most venerated social, religious and political ideals stem from a cultural war waged against the human body. ORIGINAL SIN reveals the origin of this war.Using the influence of the first Christian Emperors, and the "moral authority" of their political organization, powerful bishops of the early Church promoted the performance of sacred "mysteries" in which young children were starved, drugged, and sodomized. In ceremonies meant to test their "purity", exorcist priests victimized young children from the ranks of the orphans and homeless who populated the large cities of the ancient world.ORIGINAL SIN focuses on the writings of Christian priests themselves and the pagans who condemned their immoral activities. It shows that Church actively promoted and defended the rape of children, and that such crimes were present from the very earliest days of Christianity.ORIGINAL SIN draws from ancient internal documents, written by venerated church leaders - written in Latin - who actively promoted the rape and molestation of children. Bishops, monks and priests of the early Church successfully defended themselves from legal prosecution for centuries. As the Roman public railed on priests for sexually exploiting children, the church leadership used its growing political influence to prevent any of the child rapists within the clergy from coming to justice.ORIGINAL SIN also traces the divine feminine voice through Western history.The potent combination of natural drugs and the feminine voice is the basis for western civilization. ORIGINAL SIN explores the foundation of western society as the product of a peculiar interaction chemical and biological forcesThe pagan world was aware of the sexual crimes committed against these orphans, and waged a lengthy campaign against the priests who perpetrated these rapes.Christian priests claimed that by sodomizing children, they were saving them from possession by the demons of the pagan religions. Christian theologians justified these acts of rape by pointing to some of the earliest writings of the apostles and even the acts of Jesus himself.Exorcist priests specifically victimized young children from the ranks of the orphans and homeless who populated the large cities of the ancient world. The pagan world was aware of the sexual crimes committed against these orphans, and waged a lengthy campaign against the priests who perpetrated these rapes.The Christian hierarchy claimed these children were being "sexually tested" in order to prevent them from being used in pagan rituals that required the same children to remain sexually inexperienced. Christian priests claimed that by sodomizing children, they were saving them from possession by the demons of the pagan religions.Christian theologians justified these acts of rape by pointing to some of the earliest writings of the apostles and even the acts of Jesus himself. In the early church, groups of Christians in Asia Minor even formed their own associations that claimed the performance of such acts was a means of assuring the salvation of both the victims and the perpetrators.The potent combination of natural drugs and the feminine voice is the basis for western civilization. ORIGINAL SIN explores the foundation of western society as the product of a peculiar interaction chemical and biological forces.Some early church fathers believed Jesus had several relationships with young boys. Prominent church leaders argued that the apostle Mark was aware of this when he wrote in his gospel that Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane in the presence of a naked teenage boy. - - - - Note: The material in Hillman's first book, CHEMICAL MUSE, and here in ORIGINAL SIN was part of His dissertation research. While they could find no flaws in the work, his dissertation committee was so outraged by the material that Hillman found in the ancient texts - written in Latin, which he reads fluently - that they refused to pass the dissertation or award the doctorate unless he deleted the material. He did so and published the material about the used of psilocybin mushrooms and the emergence of Western Civilization. ORIGINAL SIN reveals more of the forbidden information that Dr. Hillman was uncovered.Because of this work, Dr. Hillman has been "black balled" from academic classics - even though CHEMICAL MUSE has been widely acclaimed. He now teaches Latin in a private girls' school to inch out a living to support his wife and two children.What one author said about Hillman's discoveries and his expulsion from Classics."The role of psychoactive drugs has been airbrushed out of the conventional picture of Western civilization. The academics who have created this drug-free Greco-Roman world have found their nemesis in Dr. Hillman's The Chemical Muse. With clarity and directness the author gives us back a lost chapter of our Classical heritage and by doing so restores our understanding of this past."--Richard Rudgley, author of Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age