Hell and the Play Nice Christian

[Mister Agenda]

If this were true, judaism/christianity would have sprung up all over the world, in cultures that had never encountered each other. Instead, these religiouns started in one place, and branched out from there. So no, knowledge of your god is no written into our hearts, and the bible is a very poor map that leaves its followers running around in circles while killing each other over misunderstandings and interpretations.

GodsChild, justice is not about reward and punishment. Even the most evil Humans know how to reward those who please them, and punish those who don't, if they have any sense. Justice is about intent, and equality. Any reward or punishment is proportional to the crime, and good and evil should be determined by objective means. Not because the strongest person says what he likes is good, and what he doesn't like is evil.

No, the morality which God implanted into our hearts would have sprung up everywhere, and it has, and this is why Christianity has been accepted atleast to some degree neigh on everywhere it has been taught, because it resonates with what people instinctually feel. This is why the latest international studies from Oxford Uni have concluded that children left alone to develop on a desert island with no outside interference, would come to believe in God, while they would have to be taught atheism.

Islam seems to resonate with what people instinctually feel even more, considering the rate at which it is growing. It's already larger than Catholicism or Protestantism, and they had an 800 year head start.

And children are supertstition-prone, not 'natural theists'. They'd likely come up with some kind of animism. To reach that conclusion, Oxford had to conflate a tendency to attribute agency where there is not to theism. That's not very flattering to theism, when you think about it.