Original Sin
- A Case of Conscience (1959) by James Blish is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion; they are completely without any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of sin, and the species evolves through several forms through the course of its life cycle.
- In Perelandra by C. S. Lewis the protagonist must stop a second Fall of Man from happening on another planet.
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman revolves around the idea of original sin through the mention of Dust.
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Famous quotes related to original sin:
“Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.”
—Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)