# Religious guilt

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-guilt/231633>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 28, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-guilt/231633 "2004-02-28T16:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religious-guilt/231633/21 "2004-03-01T17:26:28Z")

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> [@Dogface](#):
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> The trait you mention is typical of Romano-Protestantism. It is not the soteriology of Eastern Orthodoxy. We do not believe in “inherited guilt”. For Orthodoxy, the death of Christ is far less important than His resurection. By the Resurrection, humanity was given a pathway to immortality. Therefore, the rest of what you say is irrelevant to millions of Christians.

You are correct. I should have made a distinction.  
I was a bit too much focussing on the belief of my late mother and of her relatives (Catholic), which was aimed at helping the OP gain some insight in the problem.

I like the Eastern Orthodox views a lot more since they make overall a lot more sense to me. Yet I didn’t study the doctrine in depth = not much more then came on the desk during history courses. My comparitive study Islam/Christianity was in its interpretation focussed on the Latin/Catholic, since it was part of the curriculum on a Catholic university. (every student, no matter which department or studyfield, had “some” courses related to the Catholic religion in the curriculum. In the department Arabic and Islamic studies that was of course extended to a comparitive study).  
Salaam. A

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