“You can’t feel guilty. You’re not Catholic,” my friend once said to me in
jest. She often jokes about the deep sense of conscience instilled in her by her devout Catholic upbringing. She is not always comfortable with it.
A perpetual background feeling of guilt is at times associated with people of all religions. Whether it is the myth of Pandora’s box or of Adam and Eve disobeying God, this guilt is residue from the doctrine of original sin.