Why some humans are so evil: double standards and irreligion

[Pat Mustard]

I doubt that the gangster would do what he did if he feared hell, and that the same would happen to him.

Read up some time on Fr Brendan Smyth. Devout and believing catholic, raped hundreds of children in a most brutal manner. Or read up on the Tuam babies scandal, same religion murdered eight hundred children.

If fear of god made people good these things wouldn't happen.

As Havelock Vetinari put it:

I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs, a very endearing sight, I'm sure you'll agree. And even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters, who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen. Mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that is when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

That is truth.