Oskar Kiss Maerth and secular notions of "Original Sin".

[Zipporah's Flint]

Oskar Kiss Maerth was a Hungarian business man who was in a Hitlerite concentration camp during World War II- whether as guard or inmate is disputed- who is famous for writing a book entitled "In The Beginning was the End" in which he put a theory of human evolution which claimed that we are the way we are because we are descended from apes who took to killing members of their own species to consume their brains because they found doing so increased their sexual excitement but also this brought other changes such as increased intelligence. He believed in the inequality of the races in terms of intelligence but put this down to the more intelligent subraces and races having ancestors who were more given to cannibalism which is not exactly a comforting thought.

He believed that because of this humanity is something out of sync with the natural order and (so) incredibly destructive therefore to self and others- this was written during a time when nuclear war seemed a very real possibility- therefore the best thing was for people to adopt an encarite vegan lifestyle and practice Oriental forms of meditation as well as arguing for others to do likewise.

You do not have to agree with him to see that humanity as it exists today is sort of out of place in the cosmic scheme of things being neither just an animal or an Angel but swinging between the animalistic and Angelic in often dangerous manners.

Freudianism also I think would count as a secular notion of "Original Sin".

The Beginning Was the End - Wikipedia

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[Myles O'Reilly]

For fukk's sake...