"The tendency to sin is not inherited. It is passed down by learning--if parents are mystic they will teach that to their children."
Well...this sounds sort of nice, but it really doesn't happen that way I would say a large part of the time. Of course it is most visible with extreme examples like
Hitler: now, did he learn mass extermination of the Jews from his parents? Was he sat down by his father (until he was thirteen) and mother (until he was seventeen) every night where they would tuck him in and sing a gay Aryan supremacy propoganda themed lullaby?
Vlad the Impaler: Was he raised by the people around him to impale, burn, skin, roast, torture and boil people? Did he attend live clinical demonstrations on how to terrorize the baddies? Or was it just written, and oral instruction on how best to do this? Perhaps there was illustrations of a designated criminal having his best hat nailed to his head.
Of course, like I said, these are the extreme examples.
Along with Hitler, millions of Germans participated in the genocide of the Jews, the murder of countless others.
Approximately 13,000,000 were in the Luftwaffe service between 1939-1945
Were they raised to be cogs in a killing machine? Is it possible that until that point that they chose to carry out torture and murder of innocent people would have been perfectly ordinary people if you had met them on the street before the killing started?
Clearly, it is not statistically possible that 13,000,000 people could have been categorized as 'psychopaths', How is it that so many people chose to participate in on of the greatest human atrocities ever to be committed?
Likewise, if what you stated was true, the only theives would be children of theives, only rapists, children of rapists; the only people who tortured children sexually and posted it on the internet would be the children of those people who had also done that.
I think perhaps it might be said that people can go terribly wrong regardless of their upbringing.
I suppose they just weren't raised by mystics.
I think its a bit silly to say the 'tendency to sin' is something one 'learns.'
"The churches make up rules that are intended to get us hooked on God"
Really?
That strikes me as nonsensical. If Churches are self-serving, then the best thing they can do is to do what the WT does, get the individual hooked on the Church. Why would anyone who doesn't go to Church get 'hooked on God' if that were the case?
