Re: Frightening Revelation

> > The way I figure it... if you need a God to scare you into being moral, wha
> > does that say about you? I mean, couldn't a person be moral in the first
> > place?
>      Actually, Christianity (when taking the Bible as it's authority at
> least) DOES presume man to be quite immoral and evil from the onset. There is
> much scriptural language that depicts the human condition in terms of
> hopeless decrepitness. The "fear" of God, rather the fear of eternal
> damnation, is intended as ONE means that is used to elicit a response of
> humility and the seeking of salvation.

I don't need an all-powerful entity to scare me into being moral; I already
act on what's right... at least to the best of my abilities. In other words,
I'm no angel, but I am a nice guy or so I'm told; that's just my basic
personality. I'm not moral because I fear other entities, I'm moral for the
sake of survival.