[RoosterRedux]

I saw the cover of a Richard Dawkin's youtube video the other day where he was complaining about the cruelty of Christianity for saying that men were born in sin.

Either he's an idiot (which I suspect) or...well, I can't think of an "or."

[Heartlander]

wank·er noun \waŋ-kər\
1.chiefly British usually vulgar: See Richard Dawkins

[EnderWiggin1970]

The alternative to saying man is born in sin is to assert that he is naturally good. But if we are all naturally good, when then do we sin? The necessary answe4r of those who assert natural goodness is that sin is imputed into everyone from some external source.

At this point inevitably the scapegoating begins. Everyone has something they dislike, and the "naturally good" folks invariably pick out some institution or group of people that they demonize as this "source of all evil." Dawkins blames the Christians, others have blamed the Jews, or blacks, or capitalists, etc. From here it is a short walk to the natural conclusion: Utopia could be ours, if we just stamp out the Source of All Evil that is corrupting society!

And so a nice-sounding belief that everyone is naturally good becomes, by ruthless logic, a driver of genocide against the scapegoated group. You can see this again and again through history. Such a nice-sounding idea. Such hellish consequences. All because they won't acknowledge that sin begins in their own heart.