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Re:Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: ... by andsoitis on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:11PM (#32075016)
> personal shame, guilt, and self-loathing

Do you think the Christian concept of "original sin" planted (at least some of) the seeds for this mental model? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

Re:Buddhism has found a new institutional home in the West: ... by mensetmanusman on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:24PM (#32075875)
self-loathing is technically a type of sin… but that doesn’t mean peoples conceptions match the teachings (they often don’t).

CCC 405

“ Although it is proper to each individual, original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam’s descendants.

It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering, and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin — an inclination to evil that is called “concupiscence.”

Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ’s grace, erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.”