Ruth: "I understand the points you're making, but I do think there must be less contentious and problematic descriptors." >>>

OK, Ruth; then "original - sin - evil" don't work for you: they happen to express the concept that I wish to convey when trying to address, conceive, comprehend such phenomena as Auschwitz; Holocaust; AnneFrank [please, Spaw, keep off that bloody drumkit just for once; you have tediously beaten {word deliberately chosen} that particular (un)pleasantry to death]. If you, Ruth, can think of a better verbal explication of such, feel free to use your preferred one. "Original Sin", in, I reiterate, no doctrinal sense, is the only term I can come up with to cover the concomitant concepts to my own verbal satisfaction. You, as I say, will have to choose your own, less 'loaded' nomenclature.