Original Sin: Forgotten, neglected, unpopular… yet necessary

Sin.  How many times have you heard that word in church lately?  Probably not a lot.  Sin seems to be taboo, and not in the way you think!  We don’t talk about sin much in our everyday conversations.  We don’t even talk about or teach much on sin in the church setting.  Why not?  There are a number of reasons.  First, the idea of sin, especially original sin, is quite frankly in most modern minds a bit outdated.  Its theological relative, depravity, is also considered outdated, especially in America.  We live in a prosperous country, where even the poorest American is better off than a vast majority of the world.  We also have been fed since birth a diet of self-esteem and positive thinking, so much so that we all believe that we can make the world a better place if we can just change our attitudes and actions.  Every Disney movie, Saturday morning “tween” show, and even most sitcoms show that life is good, and that we can be whoever we want to be.