Original sin... It is the antithesis, because it eliminates any possibility of blaming other individuals or groups, and it also eliminates any possibility of performing the correct actions or rituals or nonsensical penances to atone for evil.
After mic dropping on the pharisees and scribes about their "traditions of the elders" legalisms and rituals that nullify their moral duties, Jesus pivots to the crowd of Jews and disciples overhearing this debate and makes sure they're crystal clear on a point that would have been extremely revolutionary to the first century Jew:
"And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
That comprehensive list of sins in the final verse Jesus gives, those are all the things that Jews used to morally distinguish themselves from Gentiles since it's the disgusting Gentiles that practice all that. Jesus is saying, No, even if you don't practice it, your heart is full of the same evil and no amount of ritual washings or abstaining from certain foods will make you clean within.
That's exactly why the religious elite didn't accept the need for a savior, because they misused the Law as if it could actually make them clean before God. Ignoring that their hearts are by nature unclean and need an act by God himself to create a new, clean heart. Hence the need for a savior.
So bringing it all back to the OP, I agree yes because the vast majority of society reject the basic universal moral corruption of mankind, many groups are justified in watering down and repurposing a kind of "original sin" as a way to self righteously distinguish themselves from others they judge "sinners" against policies and ideologies they have adopted. Note the utter lack of humility in public discourse.
Original sin... It is the antithesis, because it eliminates any possibility of blaming other individuals or groups, and it also eliminates any possibility of performing the correct actions or rituals or nonsensical penances to atone for evil.
After mic dropping on the pharisees and scribes about their "traditions of the elders" legalisms and rituals that nullify their moral duties, Jesus pivots to the crowd of Jews and disciples overhearing this debate and makes sure they're crystal clear on a point that would have been extremely revolutionary to the first century Jew:
"And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
That comprehensive list of sins in the final verse Jesus gives, those are all the things that Jews used to morally distinguish themselves from Gentiles since it's the disgusting Gentiles that practice all that. Jesus is saying, No, even if you don't practice it, your heart is full of the same evil and no amount of ritual washings or abstaining from certain foods will make you clean within.
That's exactly why the religious elite didn't accept the need for a savior, because they misused the Law as if it could actually make them clean before God. Ignoring that their hearts are by nature unclean and need an act by God himself to create a new, clean heart. Hence the need for a savior.
So bringing it all back to the OP, I agree yes because the vast majority of society reject the basic universal moral corruption of mankind, many groups are justified in watering down and repurposing a kind of "original sin" as a way to self righteously distinguish themselves from others they judge "sinners" against policies and ideologies they have adopted. Note the utter lack of humility in public discourse.