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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (19481)	3/30/1998 6:57:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Dwight, I really hesitate to post to you, because it is not my intention to get into a long, drawn-out argument. However, I noticed that you called Jim a name--swamp breath I believe it was--a few days ago. Martin Luther, in the work Del quoted from, is suggesting that the Jews have pig shit thrown at them. In fact, the most vitriolic posts I have seen lately have been by self-described Christians, or quotations of Christian belief, like Luther's. I do insist that mankind's nature does not tend towards corruption, if children are loved and nurtured and cared for in a tender way, and have good role models. If this kind of parenting happens, they will be moral, ethical and far from corrupt. In fact, my own belief is that children who are brought up being indoctrinated that they must be good because they will be harshly punished if they are "bad", or go to hell, or that God is watching them, are the children who do not develop good internal self controls, and instead behave well only if they think someone is watching them, or they receive some kind of a reward. Someone here once said that atheists and agnostics and pagans who do good works are really operating at the highest ethical and moral levels, because they do not expect to get any reward, or go anywhere after they die, and do good simply because it feels right to act that way. I think that is an excellent example of man's nature not tending towards corruption.