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Wonder Cabinet

Original Sin

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The story of Adam and Eve is as old as sin.  But it’s a lot more than a Bible story. Original Sin at the Heart of All Political Divides; The Imprint of Original Sin on Western Culture; A Blessing in the Garden; When Sin Bears Fruit.

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

Details are at ultra.org. It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Andstreen champs.

0:23.6

They can lie louder, but I can tell the truth longer.

0:28.6

We get so many politicians coming through.

0:32.6

It's hard to tell who's there for coffee or who's there for J.C. Watts.

0:35.6

I was there for J.C. Watts. I was there for J.C. Watts,

0:42.3

Baptist minister, a member of Congress. This was a rising star in the Republican Party. And the truth has to fight to get through. He came to Pella, Iowa, to campaign for Rand Paul.

0:49.4

And he said something that just was an epiphany for me in the sense that I never understood why all of

0:55.7

the conservative friends that I have, admire, respect, could think so differently than I on

1:01.7

so many different topics. He said that Democrats believe that all people are born good,

1:09.1

and Republicans know that we're all born bad.

1:13.3

Our children's innocence is more threatened than ever before.

1:16.2

And somebody asked him a question about a shooter in Louisiana who killed a bunch of people

1:20.5

at a theater.

1:22.1

And he said, Democrats would say, oh, something bad happened to the man, maybe society, maybe it was the guns.

1:31.8

And Republicans, he said, we know it's not the gun's fault.

1:35.5

We know it's not society's fault.

1:37.7

He's a bad man.

1:40.0

We become good by being born again.

1:43.6

And so there's this tension that probably goes all the way back to original sin.

1:49.5

And when J.C. Watts laid that out for me, boom, there it is.

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