Hi Joe. Seems to me the Godless continue to believe in the inherent good of man and the brotherhood man. Not biblical. They keep betting on man. You know if I was a betting man and I kept on going to the racetracks betting on the same old nag that could barely stumble out of the starting gates, day afer day, week after week, year after year, it might some day dawn on me that my loyalty to that horse far exceeds my common sense. Betting on the goodness of man is very dangerous and fruitless. Otherwise Mr Dead Corpse would give you all in his bank account. For his love of arguement he clings to 5000 years of mans inhumanity to man. However I believe you correctly determined the real problem which is Self. The Christian has the perfect law of liberty. That Law is perfect, but Christians are not. We should always strive to be. We are not citizens of this world, we're just passing through. The unregenerate mind will never appropriate this truth, because he rejects the Truth.
Actually, no. I'm betting on the inherent animal nature of man. Ergo, the fewer evolved monkeys with big guns and public approval pointed at the rest of us, the better. I do not carry a gun because I believe in some inherent mythological good in my fellow humans. Same for putting them in positions of power over my life and the lives of others.
I don't expect you "love thy neighbor" types to understand or approve. You zealots never change no matter what religious labels you try and hide behind.