"Many fear that in disaster we become something other than we normally are – helpless or bestial and savage in the most common myths – or that is who we really are when the superstructure of society crumbles. We remain ourselves for the most part, but freed to act on, most often, not the worst but the best within. The ruts and routines of ordinary life hide more beauty than brutality." (A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit, 2009; page 70)
When they say that without the teachings of Scripture human nature would be horrible they are denying the best in the human spirit. Scripture doesn't alter human nature, it enhances it. It enables our best instincts to find a happy home in the political/economy so that the mechanisms of state are oriented in support of the mechanisms of individual autonomy and mutual aid.
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