God or Not?

Are we intrinsically evil?

Posted on May 21st, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

Well you where programed by who? your dad

On May 21, 10:16 am, random wrote:
> On May 21, 11:42 am, konrad
> wrote:
>
> > Following recent events in my country (xenophobic attacks against
> > other African refugees/economic migrants/illegal aliens) I am posing
> > this questions again:
>
> > Whether one is christian or atheist,  one has a viewpoint on this.
>
> > Are we, as humans, “programmed” for evil or good?
>
> The “programming” we have has nothing to do with good or evil.
> For example, we are programed to learn by imitating others. But what
> exactly we learn, and how it changes over time, that’s more cultural
> than biological.
>
>
>
> > If I have to believe _some_ christian doctrine, we are born in sin,
> > and therefore evil at birth and have to be saved by baptism and/or
> > spiritual rebirth.
>
> > Other spiritual doctrines have a vastly differing views:  some say
> > that we are intrinsically good, and “become” evil by assimilation or
> > osmosis.
>
> > Others say that we are purely intelligent animals, with a natural
> > instinct for survival, and that any action is governed by this, and
> > that good or evil is only a label.
>
> > I just look at what is happening around me, I come to the conclusion
> > that we are intrinsically a greedy, fearful and violent species, and
> > that our desire for good is the learned response.  Whenever we are
> > threatened or under duress, our actions are _not_ compassionate or
> > moral, and we inflict the most horrible atrocities against our fellow
> > man.
>
> > People in so-called “developed” countreis may beg to differ, but I am
> > of the opinion that one only needs a real crisis and threat to one’s
> > position to revert to the same kind of barbarism I now see (again) in
> > my own country.
>
> > And, as a footnote, I do not see God anywhere in this.- Hide quoted text -
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