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RE: Why religions and ideologies suck and why a truly logical and freedom-minded spirituality needs to be the core of our humanity instead
A pretty good article. Yes, religions are a subsets of ideologies.
People are never inherently bad
This isn't true. A portion of humans are narcissists / sociopaths.
These people do not have the ability of warm empathy. They can derive good and bad as simply things that others do. These people often torment and torture others, simply because they can, simply because it brings them joy.
Lying, deceiving, getting others to hurt themselves, this is their stock in life.
There is a great conglomeration of them in Washington DC and other places of power. It is the reason that govern-cements are not for the people, they are against the people.
Thanks a lot. I guess the question of whether you believe people can be inherently evil or not is based upon whether you view people through one of two lenses:
I believe the latter. This is not to say that I have any significant pity for the psychopaths and sociopaths that are currently destroying our world, but I do believe that these people always have the opportunity to change their lives and their destiny. Whether they take that opportunity is another thing.
I've changed my wording above slightly in any case. Thanks again for the comment.