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Free will [specified conscience] relies on norms [thinkgroup<\/sup> and thinkdivine<\/sup>] .\u00a0 Many of these norms are built over time.\u00a0 Many are handed down by God.\u00a0 Many are created out of the cloth of deception, telling the interpellated what they want to hear.<\/p>\n Sin [thinkgroup<\/sup>] may eclipse awareness of any true (not deceptive) norm [thinkdivine<\/sup>].<\/p>\n In this regard, sin is opposed to the meaning of history, especially the history of salvation.\u00a0 Sin is in history.\u00a0 But since sin derives from freedom, sin is antihistorical.<\/p>\n [To me, this recalls Jung\u2019s archetypes, which are \u201cantihistorical\u201d.\u00a0 A better word would be “ahistorical”.<\/p>\n Perhaps, here, we may see another delineation of the definition of \u201creligion\u201d.\u00a0 So far, \u201creligion\u201d has been defined according to the criteria of the intersecting nested forms and relation to sovereign power.<\/p>\n Here, \u201creligion\u201d is archetypal in the precise sense that \u201cprimordial images never occur in their archetypal purity\u201d but always specified through historical circumstance.<\/p>\n But there could be another association.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of text [comment] page 23 Free will [specified conscience] relies on norms [thinkgroup and thinkdivine] .\u00a0 Many of these norms are built over time.\u00a0 Many are handed down by God.\u00a0 Many are created out of the cloth of deception, telling the interpellated what they want to hear. Sin [thinkgroup] may eclipse awareness of any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n