The Indian knew nothing about sin or karma until they were saved by grim holy priests and ministers holding their tortured deity before them as a living example of reality.
After that they knew the possibility that karmic hells existed, and the doors of those hells were flung open wide. For some “The mundane became even more impoverished”. A few sacred hunters believed what the white holy ones told them and found they had accidentally fallen through the dark doorways. Thankfully a few bodhisattvas came along cleverly disguised as elders of the tribe and pointed out karma was just bullshit. They trumpeted, “the Great Spirit was bound by nothing and never could be because the Great Spirit was all there was anywhere. Good and evil was just a loveless point of view offered by the blind that saw nothing about love.” The Bodhisattva elders set the sacred free once again. And the sacred hunters danced out of the dark doorways in joy. - Chris Waller
