Since somebody necrod this topic, I'm going to repost something from much earlier that seems to have been ignored by relevant parties.
sorry, my firefox with no script tends to shove everything together. I fixed it.
That doesn't actually answer any questions though. If a person earnestly seeks god for over twenty years, does so in numerous branches of christianity, judaism, islam, eastern religions, spends more than twenty years praying to be shown truth, and be shown nothing except that religions are bunk, and the holy books even bunkier (if that's a word). If god "wants" people in his life and yet refuses to reveal himself to the majority of the world, and the people he doesn't reveal himself to are going to be punished for his hiding, what does that say about the man? I mean do you really believe that only the people who are now christians were actually seeking god? And you don't think it's fishy that the people seeking him all seem to share geographic location? I guess the people of bosnia could care less about religious truth, and don't think too much about it. They only found allah.
I don't think man is intrinsically evil, I think that is a terrible view. I think man is intrisically flawed for the world we are trying to create. We aren't built to create massive, peaceful world civilizations. It is genetically built into our brains through millions of years of survival to form groups, procreate, grab as much as we can for status and pleasure, and conquer other groups. But I think we inherently also have the ability for kindness and empathy, genetically we are pre-disposed towards good things too. Our biggest advantage is our ability to understand this, to look inside ourselves something the vast majority of animals are incapable of. Our self awareness grants us the ability to resist and overcome our xenophobic, us vs them mentality, and our desire for status, power and to be the alpha in our pack. The world we are trying to live in now is not the savage world we grew up in, but we still retain the same tribal, and often animal mentalities that got us this far. But I do not see this as "evil" though, no more than I see a wolf that preys on a wounded lamb as being "evil". But the difference between us and the wolf, is that we no longer need to prey on the weak in order to survive.
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