“She hates God and His people,” he wrote. “You need to properly hate in response.” “Having basic empathy is a sin now?” asked ...

Many people today deny the reality of original sin. Modern thinkers claim that evolution disproves it. Some object to the idea of inheriting sin from our parents, while others simply deny sin itself.

“I had to learn the hard way that sin makes people stupid,” my friend said. Most of us had to. I did. It makes us stupid about the world and especially about ourselves, and that’s a useful ...