Original Sin Quotes

“Details are thrown into sharp relief. The plump leaves and smooth bark of the stunted persimmon trees are almost painful to behold. I remember that Moses’s first glimpse of God was an incandescent wilderness shrub.”
― Kathryn Paige Harden, Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

“Even Christians who believe in an immaterial soul now use DNA as a byword for someone’s true nature”
― Kathryn Paige Harden, Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

“Drawing on objective scientific results from behavioral genetics”
― Kathryn Paige Harden, Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

“How telling that a conspiratorial and conservative Christian mind imagined psychology to be the most un-Christian place on campus. Not physics”
― Kathryn Paige Harden, Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness