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The function of the Church’s doctrine of original sin ... is to keep alive the beam in my eye ... God keeps alive the beam in my eye by making that beam a living Cross, a beam on which there hangs a murdered victim.

— James Alison

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The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

All human paternity comes internally structured by fratricide and, as paternity, is incapable of truth, because it will always be protecting itself against the 'other'.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

Sin ceases to be a defect which excludes, and comes to be participation in the mechanism of exclusion.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

God has not the slightest difficulty in bringing to a fullness of creation the person who is in some way incomplete and recognises this. The problem is with those who think that they are complete, and that creation is, at least in their case, finished.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

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