I have noticed that in modern society, people seem to be all about the \u201cAll Natural\u201d label. If a food is \u201call natural\u201d people seem to think that is analogous to it been healthy or good in some way. This claim however is an irrational one probably brought about through good marketing. I also think that religious belief may be somewhat responsible for this fallacy. The idea is that God created everything for a reason and therefore the natural world is of God. Everything in it must be good by definition. On the flip side of this is the idea that humans are \u201cfallen\u201d creatures. We are all sinners who are imperfect and those fallible. Anything human made must therefore be faulty as well. The argument goes that a flawed being cannot make something, which is not flawed and a perfect being cannot make something, which is imperfect. So is one were to subscribe to this world view, the logic would dictate that anything from God (i.e. natural) would have to be better than anything that is from man (i.e. artificial).<\/p>\n
This is of course a bunch of horseshit and if you don\u2019t believe me, try ingesting arsenic (a very natural poison) and next time you need have a headache, don\u2019t you dare take anything unnatural to make you feel better. Oh, and while you are at it you might as well strip naked (clothes don\u2019t grow on trees you know) and start running around in the sun and see how long it takes you to get skin cancer. By the way, what the fuck are you doing on a computer?<\/p>\n
Now that we have established that natural doesn\u2019t always mean good and synthetic or artificial doesn\u2019t always mean bad, why is it that Christians go around calling certain behaviors \u201cunnatural\u201d as if that means anything? I\u2019ll get into that question more in tomorrow\u2019s Daily Blog.<\/p>\n