It is a problem in our society that original sin and the need for atonement have been discarded.  We have to be perfect and we are reduced to defensiveness and denial when it becomes apparent that we aren't.  I wish we were able to talk non-defensively about the various privileges we were born with and how we use those privileges creatively in our very human lives.  Sneering at efforts to help us see ourselves as human and imperfect doesn't help.