You know, there's a Mean Version Of Christianity thing that implies the Noise is our eevul original sin rather than a hodge-podge of mind/memory chatter that sometimes leaks to our consciousness, or at least that's my view.

Yesyesyesyes. I have OCD, so my brain both throws horrible crap at me AND whispers constantly that it must be significant or I wouldn't have thought it in the first place, and this is why I had to change churches or kill myself by inches with guilt.