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Series: Christianity as Anthropology

Why are humans Evil?

Some comments on a recent post brought up the question of why humans are moral. Is it because there is a God, or did we just evolve to act this way?

Intriguing as that question is, I'm more interested in a different question.

Why are humans evil?

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Ancient Israel vs The Blood Gods

This is the second post in a series on Christianity as Anthropology. In this, I'm sketching out in quick narrative form a synthesis of many different ideas. See my references here.

My previous post described how humans became evil. Now, I want to describe how this evil came to be focused on the destruction of ancient Israel.

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The Works of The Devil

For the past two weeks, I've been exploring the nature and rise of human evil. We're about to move into the New Testament, but before we do, I want to make sure I'm super clear as to the problems that were plaguing humanity, and the problems that Jesus believed he could solve.

Why?

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Jesus the Insurgent

This is the fourth in a series of essays on Christianity as Anthropology. Read the previous entries here.

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