The Doctrine Of Original Sin Claims That

Rabbi Zusya Said That On The Day Of Judgment, God Would Ask Him, Not Why He Had Not Been Moses, But Why He Had Not Been Zusya.

Life Ceases To Be So Oppressive: We Are Free To Give Our Own Lives Meaning And Purpose, Free To Redeem Our Suffering By Making Something Of It.

The Refusal To Belong To Any School Of Thought, The Repudiation Of The Adequacy Of Any Body Of Beliefs Whatever, And Especially Of Systems, And A Marked Dissatisfaction With Traditional Philosophy As Superficial, Academic, And Remote From Life-that Is The Heart Of Existentialism.

It Is Widely Assumed, Contrary To Fact, That Theism Necessarily Involves The Two Assumptions Which Cannot Be Squared With The Existence Of So Much Suffering, And That Therefore, Per Impossibile, They Simply Have To Be Squared With The Existence Of All This Suffering, Somehow.

To Try To Fashion Something From Suffering, To Relish Our Triumphs, And To Endure Defeats Without Resentment: All That Is Compatible With The Faith Of A Heretic.