Posted on 10/16/2009 10:38:32 PM PDT by bogusname
The Torah addresses the true nature of human beings in its opening chapter on the story of Adam's and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The salient points of the story are certainly pertinent to our lives and times. Adam and Eve disobey God's commandment and mistakenly substitute the quest for human knowledge, wisdom and opinion for the Divine will. The tendency of humans, even those who deem themselves to be pious and faithful, is to believe somehow that they know better - better than tradition, than experience, better than God Himself. Thus every ideal, policy, analysis created by humans is automatically thought to be correct, progressive and beneficial to humankind. Even such mass murderers and psychopaths as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and their ilk have always convinced themselves and duped others to believe that what they were doing - killing millions of innocents - was for the eventual greater good of world human society. They knew better, and God's commandment not to wantonly murder others was not applicable to them - they somehow had superior wisdom that set them above all laws and morality...
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