Dale

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the clarification an Adam & Eve.
I don't think I'm unique or blind to the part of myself that could and sometimes does make selfserving choices, but the choices are made with good intent and I honestly don't think this is a unique trait. It seems when people get distracted by the point-counterpoint minutia of "this" idea versus "that" idea that the real "refusal to recognize" the potential of a possibly evil path goes unnoticed and its wouldn't be suprising to have a brawl or lynching.What I've learned to be true based from direct experience and observation is that when something happens that causes all beliefs to fall away..whats left is the true nature of people, and that core nature is good..when there's a disaster a flood, a fire, a earthquake, a tornado, whatever..people risk and often lose their own lives in saving others..I would bet that religious choice plays no part in the decision..the impulse is simply to help......Seriously..how many evil people do you know?? when you go about your life..working with people... walking in shopping centers..losing your car in acres of parking lot..looking at people on the sidwalk as you drive through town...how many are evil??....not how many could be evil..how many are? shouldn't we be judged by the positives of what we are and not the negitives of what we could be???...I want to mention again that I am by no means anti religion...I have on myself.....I honestly think that not only would any religion not be harmed or its precepts violated by a more accurate interpretation of the teachings...the teachings would be helped and adapted and be a vehicle to help mankind.