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Of course I know that. I have made reference to the Bolsheviks in previous discussion.
But your numbers are fantasy small. You leave out all the fellow travelers in education, the media, local and state governments. And how did they get there? Because the culture places no actual value on the traditional virtues and principles, and therefore conservatives do not feel it is important to be involved in the details of civic life. Nothing more disgusting than to be involved in a union, whose members were likely half conservative in outlook, and listen to the complaint of a conservative member against the dominantly left-liberal union leadership. When posed with the question of running as a council rep, they turn it down as being not worth their time. I call that a worthless piece of shit---all talk, no feet. Conservatives need to own up to that failing and repent.
Human beings have a natural law that God has given us. God would not create a species that would become its predator.
So there are DEFAULT rules that were already given to all humans.
Go give 100,000 people a baseball bat and tell them to beat the hell out of a stranger. Do you think the majority would say yes???
Traditional Values just mean common sense like the 10 Commandments.
ALL humans want
Thou Shall Not Steal Thou Shall Not Kill Thou Shall Not Lie
There are two parts to human culture in my view.
There is a "nature-culture" that humans are automatically born with. Unless they are a mental/physical defect.
This is common sense as I mentioned above.
Then there is "extended culture" that operates in more superficial terms. Such as art, dance, food, hair, music, and innovation.
So when you say "It's culture".
In this case, it is not.
We are not talking about "extended culture" as I mentioned above. We are talking about "nature-culture" that is automatically inserted into the minds of our creators.
This is basic engineering.
Whenever you design something. You have to give it a basic foundation of rules.
Not killing and stealing is a basic foundational rule that God has already given us.
Well, he didn't originally, but thanks to sin, we have the propensity to become predators.
As for baseball bats, it greatly depends on where you are, who gets the bats, and who are the designated targets. In the Confederacy, slavery was an "institution." It didn't much matter whether the majority were in favor of it. I believe there was a thought-provoking university psychology experiment having to do with the willingness of students to anonymously inflict pain on a presumed subject, under the rubric that it was all for research. They went down the whole road, applying the electric shock until the subject was inert and unresponsive. (It was all an act, but the guy with the button didn't know that.)
I'm talking about the moral culture of behavior with respect to oneself and others. You are just trying to dodge this by word-wrangling. Are you saying God "inserted" sin? No, you wouldn't be that absurd. But you are failing completely to get human beings off the hook. God created man and woman perfectly. But they disobeyed and allowed themselves to partake of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which brought them into sin. And here we are, deep in our "nature culture," as you phrase it.
God gives us rules...and do we follow them? Seldom, and imperfectly. And does it save us? The answer was NO, which was the whole reason for the appearance of Christ and the vicarious expiation of our sins.
God is not an "engineer." He is a Creator, and that covers a lot more territory.
And in Zambia, it is in the culture of general behavior. No salesmen needed. Only customers.
Engineer = Creation.
You are designing something into existence.
The human body has 12 systems. These systems are not random.
They all have functions that tell us we have a creator that designed us in a certain way.
This creator gave us 5 fingers on 2 hands that have functions.
This creator also gave us inherited instincts that we all have naturally.
These inherited instincts will tell a human "This just feels wrong naturally". You can't figure out why. But you know it's work.
Yes.. humans do sin. It is because of environmental and parental factors that pushes a person down the wrong path.
My point here is the the mass MAJORITY of HUMANS know that it's wrong to kill, steal and destory property.
Those are common sense values that God has put into us.
Those that do break God's rules are ALWAYS the MINORITY of the population.
You go wrong on point 7, or there would never be any evil in the world. But we know from the book of Genesis that human beings have been eternally corrupted by sin, so all your previous points are...beside the point.
So, sin is entirely a "nurture" problem? Good luck with that. Plenty of murderers came out of otherwise wholesome families. It is a position that is entirely at odds with Scripture, both Old and New Testaments.
Don't take refuge in the idea that evil-doers are in the minority. You never know when a member of that "minority" is going to confront you in an alley, take your money, and kill you. "Oh, he's only a minority" you gurgle with your dying breath, satisfied that he wasn't a majority. How did that work out for 6 million Jews under the German Third Reich? The SS was only a minority, you know.
You are arguing for a point that is no point whatsoever. Moreover, God does not agree with you, insofar as He has declared the opposite to be true: human beings have no inner rule to compel them to obey the 10 Commandments. And the whole meaning of the Old Testament is that expecting human beings to attain salvation by such obedience was a failed expectation. That was part of Christ's message, as explained by the Apostles.