I was listening recently to a podcast in which Barefoot Ted was being interviewed. He was talking about the arguments folks have against barefoot running and the mentality that the human body is broken. It struck me how similar this belief sounds to the Christian philosophy of Original Sin, that we’re all born deficient because man has sinned against God. It got me wondering if those least likely to adopt any form of minimal shoe running would be the conservative Christians who subscribe to the Original Sin notion. Perhaps barefoot shoe companies, like Vivo Barefoot, FeelMax, and Vibram Five Fingers, would be best served spending their marketing dollars in places that have a great deal of religious diversity. Could be one variable worth considering.
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The Original Sin
I was listening recently to a podcast in which Barefoot Ted was being interviewed. He was talking about the arguments folks have against barefoot running and the mentality that the human body is broken. It struck me how similar this belief sounds to the Christian philosophy of Original Sin, that we’re all born deficient because man has sinned against God. It got me wondering if those least likely to adopt any form of minimal shoe running would be the conservative Christians who subscribe to the Original Sin notion. Perhaps barefoot shoe companies, like Vivo Barefoot, FeelMax, and Vibram Five Fingers, would be best served spending their marketing dollars in places that have a great deal of religious diversity. Could be one variable worth considering.