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Alan Jacobs: What's So Bad About Original Sin?

Socrates in the City

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The Discourse of Original Sin Is Utterly at Variance With High Rank and Good Breeding

The Duchess of Buckingham tried to share Whitfield's message with her fellow aristocrats. She wrote that the doctrine of original sin is utterly at variance with high rank and good breeding. But she failed to grasp that Whitfield was not a Methodist, but that's okay.

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