Original Sin and Zero Sum Game are crucial political and cultural issues which the “news,” in its current form, simply will not address

 Original Sin is not compatible with democracy (rejects Presumption of Innocence), nor is Zero Sum Game (denies there is a universal Public Good). Jesus of Nazareth rejected Original Sin in The Parable of the Prodigal Son;(1) but Christianity, under the enormous influence of St. Paul and St. Augustine, uses Original Sin as the foundation of The Atonement on The Cross, mandatory doctrine from which Christianity seemingly cannot extricate itself.

Zero Sum Game is the harmful notion that whenever someone gets something, someone else loses something. “Cast your bread upon the waters,” and the parable of the Good Samaritan, suggest that “Love thy neighbor as thyself” was more acceptable to the Christian spirit, and to the public-spiritedness of democracy, than looking out for number one.

“Original Sin and Zero Sum Game are crucial political and cultural issues which the “news,” in its current form, simply will not address.” Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom” contains hints concerning this situation:

Nothing is more important to a democracy than a well-informed electorate

Why did "The Newsroom" offend progressives?

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(1) The Prodigal Son commits error, not sin. The error does not define who he is, but is only a temporary situation. Unlike Original Sin, which implies that man’s capacity for wrongdoing is greater than his capacity to correct wrongdoing (only divine intervention — the sacrifice on the cross — can atone for human sinfulness), the parable reverses much of Christian theology in four brief words.

“He came to himself.”