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Silverwings What is a "sin-heart" problem?
How do you reconcile believing in Jesus with so much nastiness associated with religious organisations? Notably, some of the most hypocritically misogynist and child-hating organisations and individuals claim to be Christian and even use that faith to excuse their inhumanity.
(Or any religion or religious figure - Christianity is NOT the world's only religion but I have noticed many of its followers on SW seem to think it is.)
How do you reconcile your personal belief in one religious figure with the fact that diseases including the new Coronavirus are natural - so in your terms, evolved by God? Admittedly the Covid and other virii were transferred to humans from their original animal hosts by people misusing animals - but no pathogen knows or takes any notice whatsoever of human-invented dogmas.
Jesus is the only one who can solve all those difficulties you seem to think entirely new to mankind? Well, when?
Of course he can't. He's just one figure in one faith.
It is only humans who create human problems like social, political and religious extremism, territorial ambitions - and only humans can solve them.
It is only humans who can control the risks to themselves from natural hazards outside their control, like pathogens and active volcanoes. (Risk and hazard are not synonyms, though many people muddle them up.)
Some of the things you list are natural and no amount of praying will affect them - but they harm us mainly by our own unwariness or an assumption we now see as naïve and out-dated, that we can "tame Nature". No we can't: Nature bites back sooner or later, directly or indirectly. We see that ranging from human effects on the environment and climate, to the ruins of optimistically-built sea-defences.
Some are artificial and even literally "man"-made: hard-line social, political or religious "isms", racism, wilful ignorance.
Artificial too, is deliberate oppression of fellow-humans by their
natural human characteristics of race, sex, sexuality, and mental or physical ability or disability. Those who use a religion to justify such oppression are fearful, cruel cowards; but fear, cruelty and cowardice have always been with us.
There is nothing fundamentally new in any of your examples, except mere detail or language. Covid-19 is "new" only in being a new species of its own Corona genus, to infect humans - our primate-genus species has been prone to a bewildering variety of diseases throughout its quarter-million year history.
Rioting and looting are nothing new at all. Iconoclasm goes back millennia. So does slavery. Most ancient leaders were no better or worse than any we have today - just as bright or dim; just as benevolent or despotic.
"Antifa" sounds like a Middle Eastern culinary speciality, but though I am not American so don't know its specific meaning or context (if any), I do know it is new only as a word. There is nothing new in slang terms of political abuse coined by people unable to handle polysyllables and political analysis.
No - you list only manifestations of respectively natural and human failings, weaknesses and problems that have beset humanity down the ages; irrespective of or based on any mystical faith or none.
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en masse is its own worst enemy, despite Jesus' calls for mutual respect and tolerance. In fact the supernatural deities ancient societies invented just let us sink or swim. It is entirely our fault if we hate each other for looking different, supporting a different political party, being of the opposite sex or sexual orientation, worshipping a different or no god. Even something as peurile as worshipping the "right" god in the "wrong" way has always been and often still is, a cheap excuse for murder.
It is not our fault but Nature's (or your God's) that we are prey to diseases, but at least we can try to control and treat diseases and on the whole are pretty good at doing so, thanks to our positive use of our equally natural, brain-power.
Yet we cannot abrogate responsibility for ourselves to mysticism - but though religious beliefs have always caused so many human problems, they are not the only cause and are certainly not the answer.
Only humans can solve human troubles, whether they follow any religion or none.
