By the same logic, since adults are most definitely not innocent of sin, it is acceptable to murder them.
Which means this Methodist minister, John M Swomley, is a huckster who doesn't believe in the Ten Commandments. The Bible, God or even Heaven & Hell. Yet he is firmly committed to the concept of Original Sin? How convenient.
It's truly amazing how much religion has allowed itself to be so perverted in one generation. Perhaps I am just seeing it that way. Maybe the truth is, religion has been slowly perverting itself all along.
I think I have always been somewhat suspicious of all religions, and waffled in and out of belief in God (especially in my younger years, and at my convenience of course) until I looked around and decided that this all could not have happened by coincidence. There indeed had to be a creator. The fact that it is still in existence, proves to me that our creator still exists as well.
Just evil... one does not have to posit an eternally innocent humanity to respect them the same as God wants them respected.