{"id":1921,"date":"2010-11-19T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2010-11-19T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:31:34","slug":"%e2%80%98humans-poison-everything%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Humans Poison Everything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was watching part of the debate between Christopher Hitchens and Intelligent Design<\/a> proponent Dr. William Demski of the \u201cDiscovery Institute<\/a>\u201d (which for the record has yet to discover anything). In any case, Demski made a particular claim that many other Christian make, but not as forcefully as Demski did. He stated that \u201cHumans poison everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was obviously a play on the subtitle of Hitchens\u2019s book God is Not Great: How Religious Poisons Everything<\/a>. But Demski\u2019s remark really does cut right to the center of the Christian\/Humanist divide.<\/p>\n

You see, Christianity sets up a dilemma and then offers the only solution. The dilemma is you! According to the Christian belief system people are inherently evil. We live in a \u201cfallen world\u201d as Demski put it.<\/p>\n

As a Humanist, I reject this view. I am not claiming that people are perfect, but I am claiming that people aren\u2019t evil. The way I see it, we are all trying to be the heroes in our own story, but get sidetracked along the way. Often times we do bad things not because we are evil, but because it is sadly all we know. We observe others doing bad things and so we get conditioned into thinking that it isn\u2019t that bad if everyone else is doing it too.<\/p>\n

The point is that people don\u2019t generally go around thinking, \u201cWhat evil deed can I do today?\u201d The issue between Christians and Humanists is a matter of focus. I see the glass as half full, while Christians see the glass as completely empty.<\/p>\n

Then they pull out the old, but God loves us even though we are the most repulsively evil creatures imaginable. They often belief that this gives even more praise to their deity, but in reality it just shows how incompetent their god really is to have created such evil creatures when he perfectly planned to create the perfect creatures. But it isn\u2019t God\u2019s fault that you are an evil sinner, it is our fault because Adam ate an apple (yes I know it wasn\u2019t literally an apple).<\/p>\n

The point of this elaborate story is that Christians are self-hating. They don\u2019t just hate themselves though, they also hate you. \u201cHumans poison everything\u201d as Demski put it.
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