this made me chuckle:

This is a short excerpt from a book review in the Wilson Quarterly (we get it at work). The book being reviewed is called Original Sin: A Cultural History and is written by a Wheaton professor.

"Jacob's most original and provocative argument is that original sin has strong democratic implications. Denial of original sin leads to elitism....Original sin, on the other hand, is egalitarian because it means that everyone is alienated from God and has an innate tendency to sin. Equally egalitarian is the belief that Christ died in order to give everyone the liberty to escape sin. No one person can dare to consider himself or herself better than others, and no nation or race should dare to do so either. Jacobs offers this fascinating angle on the age-old debate in a splendid book."

The reviewer is an emeritus professor of history at UC-Santa Barbara.

Who knew that was original and provocative?!