sin is missplaced aim
– Jordan Peterson
from https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/p/why-we-need-a-school-like-this-part
This malware is in a category of its own and I want to debunk it. There is a deep, hidden belief in almost every human being, outside of intact indigenous cultures, that humans are born flawed. In Christianity we have original sin— the condition that says not that you are a sinner because you have sinned, but that you sin because you are born a sinner. It is your originary nature. Most of us expect that Buddhism avoids this malfeasance. Yet there is an insidious message in Buddhism that says, if you are born at all, you are still paying off your karmic debt (if your lucky) or still accumulating it. Here the “saved ones” are no longer born. Except of course, you might claim Bodhisattva status from the start.