Quote:I believe people sin willfully. I believe it is in their nature to sin.
Generally this sort of thing is based on the flawed religious conception of a "fall" (which is said to have happened in the Garden of Eden).
There is no evidence anywhere that there ever was a preternatural state of perfection, from which humans "fell".
Science knows a lot about human origins and the origins of a lot of nature. There is no boundary found in any of the evolutionary lines that there ever was
any sort of radical change from perfection to "fallen".
These ancient notions are not only false, but no longer useful. The concept of "sin" is outmoded.
People do things, and do not do things, which they may mistake being in their long and short term best interest.
The idea their actions somehow "offend" a deity (which actually would not be possible ... a perfect deity could not be "offended") is childish nonsense.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
