Just as Palestinianism, as a quasi-religion, has its original sin - the creation of Israel - and its heretics - the neoconservative warmongers who point out the inconvenient reality of Arab intransigence and fanaticism - so climate change activists have their own pseudo-religious practices and rituals.

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My solution is to remove the fatal flaw at the heart of the system - the original sin of priority, because once you've removed priority you've removed the need for traffic lights and the need for speed because we're in no rush any more.

BBC: Viewpoint: Is it time to get rid of traffic lights?

According to the ultra-radical orthodox activists, the bitten apple symbolizes the original sin of Adam and Eve and is generally anti-Christian.

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The Benedettis begin as peasants and become wealthy landowners, but their prosperity and power derive from an original sin, committed in the seventeen-nineties, for which future generations have never received full absolution.

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Knoyle came close to fashioning a try with a stunning break from deep in his own half, but Ulster's 14 men held out, the only points they conceded in the sin-bin period coming from the original penalty.

BBC: Scarlets 25-8 Ulster

Craig David's 7 Days - a hit in the UK in 2000 - was up for best male pop vocal, along with Sir Elton John's Original Sin and Sting's Fragile.

BBC: Coldplay