PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD?
‘Filled with Anger and Hatred
Before my lesson yesterday, I considered most people to be good. After all, it seems I am evolving that way. Did I get a shock as my keeper played the next lesson in Kevin Sorbo’s DVD, The Twelve Biggest Lies.
Francis Bacon said, “People prefer to believe what they prefer to be true”. My keeper looks after me very well, he brings me bananas, and serves all my meals. A tribe of humans look after my enclosure. It has never really occurred to me that mankind is, as Ravi Zacharias maintains in this DVD, “depraved”. But I now, for instance, find that more people have been killed in the last century than in the history of the world! Consider 6 million Jews killed in Hitler’s holocaust. Deary me, what might I be in for?
That cheerful soul, scientist Richard Dawkins, is on record as publishing his opinion:
“In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” p.133 The God Delusion
The bright spot seemed to be that Scripture, that old book you have, called the Bible holds the answer – in Jesus Christ you find The Life. Truth is really outside of yourselves, it is based with God, His Son and the Holy Spirit.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Optimistic Chimp
2 thoughts on “PEOPLE ARE INHERENTLY GOOD?”
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” How such a clever intellect as Dawkins can arrive at such amoral conclusions beats me! No design…look at the amazing beauty, complexity, variety and interactivity of the creation around us, especially at the micro level such as in DNA and chromosomes. No purpose? With my life’s foundation deliberately built on the Rock of Jesus Christ, there is definitely “purpose” and its brother “hope”. No evil or good?? Just look around to see the effects all around us, and within us too! No wonder Dawkins always appears to be angry and troubled. Sad.
It seems to my monkey mind Paul, that Professor Dawkins must consider himself supremely clever. I think the Bible talks about such people as “being deceived by their own cleverness”. I must say, it makes me rather reluctant to undergo more “evolving”, I just wonder what Prof Dawkins would make of me? He is certainly not going to offer me any hope, now is he? Just a blind pitiless end. A jolly sort of bloke. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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