My interpretation was that the original sin was “eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil” aka developing consciousness. Once you have a consciousness and see the world in terms of “right” and “wrong” it’s very difficult to go back, so people blindly stumble forward never questioning what good and evil really are because it requires an amount of self reflection that could lead to psychic suicide.
The original sin wasn’t done by you yet you are blamed and supposed to get punished for it, so i assume the same goes for gods non-existence
of course.
They have to explain why you need to buy absolution.
My interpretation was that the original sin was “eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil” aka developing consciousness. Once you have a consciousness and see the world in terms of “right” and “wrong” it’s very difficult to go back, so people blindly stumble forward never questioning what good and evil really are because it requires an amount of self reflection that could lead to psychic suicide.