Nature is violent. I don't mean human nature, I mean nature, collective. It is destructive, selfish, and wipes out the weak. Even plants function this way. Nature holds no mercy. A vine does not approach a tree and think This tree is old and beautiful, I will not wrap myself around it until it suffocates. Rather, it destroys it all the same.
Stronger plants destroy the weaker. Most entangle their root structures, others steal all of the resources, and some (like the vine, strangle the plant externally).
Animals are no different. Predators hold no mercy for the elderly, the weak, the injured. The strong prey on the weak. They dominate, destroy, kill.
I don't understand how anyone can believe in human goodness with out God. When we look at the realm of all nature, it is inherently destructive. If we truly deny the existence of God, then we must believe in the natural order of things: the strong dominate the weak. It is the belief in God that turns that perspective on its head. Because we believe in God, we advocate for the weak (I make no blind attempts to pretend as if some people have not gone around using their belief in God to go along wit the natural order of things. Obviously this has happened in the past, and continues to do so today).
I mean absolutely no bashing on those who choose to believe in no God. I simply wish to understand a school of thought that makes no sense to me.
