G. K. Chesterton wrote, in Orthodoxy, “Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”
As evidence of that contention, I offer this article from CTV News:
Hamlin said the findings suggest that babies feel something like schaudenfreude, a German term describing the pleasure experienced when someone you dislike or consider threatening experiences harm.
Personally I’ve never trusted babies. Shifty eyes.
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Anyone with small children is an automatic believer in Total Depravity. Just sayin’.
I take it NOT the feeling grandparents get when their own children experience the frustration of parenting?
“The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. – G.K. Chesterton