a lie you hear about christianity

[Batty]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

you realize the whole idea of anything being "inherently evil" is derived directly from religious thought?
We can't even have this discussion free from the brainwashings of religion because it's been going on for so long and so widespread.

This is generally the point where we get to FUCK GRAVITY, LET'S FLY territory and the problem is nobody can actually do that. I mean, we all gotta have some type of code, some type of philosophy to follow (self-created or otherwise). Maybe, a major part of your philosophy is to be anti-religion... and truth is, that can be just as instilled and brainwashed as any other code be it religion or full-on hipsterism.

Check it, one thing y'all aint even touched on is the fact that even within Christianity itself there are tons of denominations. I mean, you lump all of those together in a discussion and you're not going to make any progress. That's assuming that everybody ultimately wants to learn something from dialogue rather than just express anger over something they've learned to despise based on past experiences or again, possibly ... brainwashing?

But yo, on the whole "inherently evil" thing... if you want to dissect it on a more primal, non-philosophical, non-romanticized level. Sure, "evil" is a word we've applied over the years to describe some of our more self-destructive primal instincts, but the bottom line is we are self-destructive... we create bombs that could destroy our entire planet, we kill our own babies, we kill other people's babies and a whole list of other atrocities. I really don't have a problem with somebody pointing that out as "evil" tbh, all semantics aside.

Animals can't do these types of things on this level as a matter a fact, just look at the number of animal species that humans are responsible for wiping out.