[HumanaeVitae]

This is nothing more than warmed over determinism. True, we can't choose our circumstances. But we can choose between good and evil. The entire Anglo-American system of law is based on the idea that we can choose between good and evil.

You sound like a liberal here; "he couldn't control the fact that he axe murdered his whole family--it was his poor upbringing! He was bound to do it!"

If you want to know where soft-on-crime liberalism comes from, it comes from this kind of scientific materialism/determinism.

[RnMomof7]

The fall caused man to be spirtiually dead...He can still make choices, but he can only choose between bad and worse. He is not capable of choosing "good'

     Rom 3:10   As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:   

  Rom 3:11   There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

     Rom 3:12   They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

The problem is we compare our choices to the choices of other men..Jeffery Damler ate men. I do not eat men therefore I must be good

HV compared to a Holy God man can not choose good..He can just choose the less of two evils

Jhn 6:63   It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.