11-24-2006, 10:25 AM
Cyrus Wrote:Secondly if people were initially good then we wouldnt have to teach people to be good.
When they're born, people aren't good nor bad, they're like blank sheets of paper on which you can write anything. If a person is raised in a harsh and "bad" environment, chances are that person will turn out "bad" and harsh as well. In the same way, if someone is raised in a "good" environment there's a big chance that person will also be "good". Of course this doesn't always happen, and "bad" environments aren't necessarily completely bad, the same way "good" environments aren't necessarily completely good. The truth is a "good" family doesn't need to be Christian or even religious at all to be good. People don't need religion to have good values. It's much more a matter of common sense than anything else. There are plenty of people who are seriously devoted to one religion or another who have none of that common sense. The opposite is also true.