'World peace' hitcher is murdered

It is my belief that if God tells us that we are all born with an evil nature, then we are. Those who don't believe it pay the price generation after generation. Socialism/Communism slaughters millions and enslaves billions all in the belief that eventually the system has to be able to work because it would work if we were all basically good and altruistic. Capitalism is the only system that works universally, because it assumes that people will be greedy and work really hard to have a little more than their neighbors. All over the world there has never been a culture of people who were not selfish. The only real problem is that some people are lazier and more irresponsible than they are greedy.(the homeless bums) The Bums would rather steal from each other and the rest of us than humble themselves and work for the man.

In our American culture we are trained to be good and imprisoned if we're not, however there is always some evil nature inside of each of us that we have to consciously resist on a daily basis. There are things you feel like saying, but hold your tongue, there are lies or diversions used to obscure the truth to protect ourselves from criticism. Every one of us either admits we do evil or is a liar.

Original sin is not a heresy it is the basis for Christianity. Sin is why we need to be saved and original sin is why we need to be "born again" without it's penalty. Throwing Original Sin out of the Bible to accommodate Secular Humanism is the obvious heresy.

Our nations Founding Fathers realized the moral corruption that rises up when a person is given authority over others and sought to keep it in check with a separation of powers, checks and balances, and a written constitution that was not easy to amend. They also gave us the right to bear arms so we could shoot the tyrants if our rulers took more power than they had been granted. In the old world attempts to establish rule by an enlightened elite failed miserably as the elite quickly turned greedier and more crooked than the masses.

Those who do not admit they are selfish at the core are liars or self deluded. And those who claim they are "not sure that a selfish nature is such a bad thing, much less sinful", are just wrong. Caring for one's self is fine, but deciding hey I'd love to Rape this lady and steal her belongings and cellphone, and I think I'll kill her and leave her in the woods so that she doesn't make any trouble for me afterward, is the final outworking of an untamed selfish streak, and it is both bad and sinful. While you may not exercise your selfishness to this degree, you have it in you and it is evil. Too bad you don't see it and will spend your life trying to stomp out the symptoms of it in others.

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