The Butcher

It was never written in the bible that man was born evil. It says clearly in the scriptures that children are saved as they have no sin. So how is it that they are born evil?

I do not mean to offend any Christians, but if you think logically, if you believe in God, God is a kind, merciful pure being, so how could we be born evil, when we are created in his image?

My apologies, ilovejazz777. "Man is born with sin" is more accurate I believe. I should not be making generalizations towards all religious people as I only have basic experience with scripture. Nevertheless, this has been misinterpreted many times to support the myth that people are inherently selfish, wicked and cruel as if it were part of our DNA. I ardently believe that a loving society creates loving people. A monstrous society creates butchers. I believe this because I have traveled around the world to witness it myself.<br /> <br /> The conviction that we are all rotten on the inside has been the basis behind "free market" capitalism over the decades. Otherwise, Scientific breakthroughs in psychology regarding the nature of human empathy, compassion and cooperation would not be making the headlines they are today. If scripture states that "children are saved as they have no sin," then I am grateful for its wisdom and sorry for my offensive oversight.<br /> <br /> My main purpose was not to discuss religion, science, or even politics. I am merely here to express the awe I have for Radiohead's ability to transform a complex and sad idea into powerful poetry. I hope my post helps others appreciate this song to a similar degree.

born with "original sin." And, yes, I do know it all (since I'm going to quickly be accused of that:) If Eve had not forced that damn apple down Adam's throat we would all be perfect! Women!!!

This is so ironic.

I agree, for the most part. <br /> <br /> ''I used to never understand how anyone could grow up to end up breaking the necks of cows, slitting the necks of pigs, etc. The whole religious argument of "man is born evil" has been increasingly proven wrong. It's ignorant if you think this is normal.''<br /> <br /> ''slitting the necks of pigs'' is how humankind has survived and will continue to do so unless we 'grow out' of this protein thing. To sum it up. I think that this previous statement has nothing to do with good or evil.<br /> <br /> I think that slitting a pigs throat yourself might be less ignorant than letting some one else to it for you.. Better leave it to professionals, though.. <br /> <br /> I think that claiming what is normal in our society is far to complex.. Society is the sum of millions of 'variables' <br /> <br /> It said that our economic system is to complex to be controlled in order to avoid economic crises, even if we had the best, smartest people around one table.<br /> So we can't even model these complex processes accurately enough.. People working with AI's and robots say that our society acts like an AI(artificial intelligents).<br /> <br /> Example: one engineer can't even build a Boeing passanger ariplane, They might have some sort of intuitive perception of what they need to build , but they dont know all the details. So such bigger machines, projects are designed based on collective knowledge. Lots of specialt together have the know-how to build it.<br /> <br /> <br /> Human behaviour would probably be even more complex. It would be asking Every idividual why did he/she do That, at a frequent enough rate.