'Original Sin' and the 'Select Elect'

'Original Sin' would mean all humans are evil, bad to the bone, from birth; sharing the guilt of some very far removed, mythological ancestors.
Not the sort of thing an equitable god, but only a whimsical despot would hold to. Seems a cruel culture-bound orientation native to the Levant and Middle-East.

Some philosopher wrote something to the effect that systemic philosophy was intrinsically misleading. I think it may have been Nietzsche or Heidegger. The same, it seems to me, applies to theology. Most of the evil in religions appears to stem from institutional systemic theology. Perhaps they ought to keep it simple like most of the truly holy people appear to.

Was 'original sin' a metaphor misinterpreted to be doctrine or dogma? I suspect so. And the same for many other dogmates, and other barriers set up by collectives and legalists . Jesus spoke to this sort of thing during his public life (Luke 11: 46 & 52).
Much suffering and misery are attributable to the 'original sin dogma'.