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we have capacity for good and evil. Some children are nicer than others, need less discipline. But the capacity is always there. Some of it is genetics. Some of it is experiences and conditioning.
rebellion is bound up in the heart of a child. It is our natural desire to rebel. Some peoples entire personality is based in and evolved from rebellion. It is more difficult for these people to accept Christianity.
posted by
fieryloins
on November 30, 2005 at 4:09 PM
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Xeno,
Please forgive me if I sound bitter.....I know this is extremely unChristian, but to my mind, if Adolf Eichmann and Adolf Hitler had a innate wish to good.....They would neve have commited such unspeakable atrocities against millions of innocent men, women, and children.
I pray they are never forgotten....
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on November 30, 2005 at 4:05 PM
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I think you just made a case for original sin, one of the few
Catholic doctrines I believe.
posted by
Ariala
on November 30, 2005 at 3:50 PM
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