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"‘The one true Christian doctrine is original sin,’ he says. ‘The fact that we are screwed-up creatures. We are neither completely animals nor are we completely mature minds — we are the strange dual creature which is why we are capable of terrible kindness and terrible evil.'" - former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, interviewed in The Spectator

It's the basic question any religion has got to tackle - why is everything so screwed up? Why are we so screwed up? (Holloway also discusses literal truth, the business of fundamentalists and atheists, and the more "muddled" truth of metaphor and narrative, comparing the truths of Christianity to Greek myth.)