De la jeunesse du Christianisme

« Original sin is one of the more plausible concepts within the Western Chistianity package, corresponding all too accurately to everday human experience. One great encouragement to sin is an absence of wonder. Even those who see the Christian story as just that – a series of stories – may find sanity in the experience of wonder : the ability to listen and contemplate. It would be very surprising in this religion, so youthful, yet so varied in its historical experience, had now revealed its secrets. »

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity. The First Three Thousand Years, 2010