Are Humans 'Good' or 'Evil'? Was the Theory of Original Sin Actually a Super Positive Concept?!

Which of these ideas do you lean toward?
For a long time, I was completely on the side of the theory of original goodness.

Because everyone starts out as an innocent, pure baby.
There is no way a newborn being could be 'evil'.
While some people commit evil acts as they grow, everyone has done something good at least once. So, I couldn't believe that we are inherently evil.

Yes, until very recently.

I became convinced that humans are 'evil'

At one point, I realized something.
The idea that "humans are inherently evil" is actually what leads to salvation.

For example, we are taught to "be grateful" for our food.
To say 'itadakimasu' and thank the life we are consuming.

But think about it.
Cows, pigs, chickens, and fish are born for humans, killed for humans, turned into food, and sometimes thrown away.
How deeply do we truly feel guilty about that fact?

I am not denying the act of taking a life.
However,we are doing things for which we could not complain if we were hated and judged by those beings—this is the truth.
Yet, aren't we just getting by with feeling only a tiny bit of guilt?

"If we don't take someone's life, we cannot live."
This very fate is what makes humans 'evil'.
That is the perspective of the theory of original sin.

Putting an end to a 2,500-year-old debate

So, is there nothing but despair for us, bearing such 'extreme evil'?
No, it is actually the opposite.

Even though I am this wicked, I am still alive today.
When I realize that fact, a strange sense of gratitude wells up.

While taking lives, I am allowed to live without having my own taken.
I have food to eat, clothes to wear, a house to live in, and I can even learn.

Despite being such a sinful existence, to be given so much—faced with this fact, I realize that life is not about 'lack,' but simply 'grace'.

The theory of original sin is a philosophy of salvation

I am convinced thatthe theory of original sin is a philosophy of salvation.
Because it is not a philosophy for judging humans, but one that shows us the reality that "we are evil, yet we are still allowed to live."

That is why I have no choice but to be grateful.
Because this moment of being alive is already an overly luxurious miracle.