Absurd Original Sin
Having quoted Genesis 3:1-12, 17-19, 23-24; Cardinal Ratzinger continues his homilies to give us a Big Bang understanding ‘On the Subject of Sin.’
‘The account [in Genesis] tells us that sin begets sin, and that therefore all the sins of history are interlinked. Theology refers to this state of affairs by the certainly misleading and imprecise term ‘original sin.’ What does this mean? Nothing seems to us today to be stranger or, indeed, more absurd than to insist upon original sin, since, according to our way of thinking, guilt can only be something very personal and since God does not run a cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρ, in which one’s relatives are imprisoned, because he is a liberating God of love, who calls each one by name. What does original sin mean, then, when we interpret it correctly?.... Sin is a loss of relationship,…therefore it is not restricted to the individual. At the very moment that a person begins human existence, he or she is confronted by a sin damaged world.’ Consequently, each person is, from the very start, damaged in relationships. (p, 72.)
The traditional teaching of Genesis is that Adam and Eve committed the first sin of mankind called the Original Sin, a sin that is directly passed on to all their descendants, that is, the whole human race, the sin that necessitated God become man to die on the cross to open access to heaven once again. But now it undergoes modernisation. Never mentioned in this chapter was the sacrament of Baptism, necessary to rid the soul of Original Sin, and the means to enter heaven. Nor is there any reference to the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception wherein the mother of God was conceived in God’s love and without Original Sin. There followed in this homily, Ratzinger’s version of sin being something to do with the network of human relationships damaged from the beginning.
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