[Legatus]

Corrupted and weakened do not equal TOTAL depravity.

[Mad Dawg]

It’s the whole Calvinist reluctance to acknowledge chiaroscuro.

[bkaycee]

Total depravity, only means we are unable to choose God freely.

It does not mean that everyone is Hitler or Stalin.

Council of Orange;

The sin of the first man has so impaired and weakened free will that NO ONE thereafter can either love God as he ought or believe in God or do good for God's sake, unless the grace of divine mercy has preceded him.

CANON 13. Concerning the restoration of free will. The freedom of will that was DESTROYED in the first man