God’s Biggest Mistake: Creating Mankind

I was in my twenties. I had grown up and was paying greater attention to my country and what lay beyond our nation’s shores. A funny thing about becoming aware and informed is that once you begin, you want to know more and more: your interest grows rapidly. Although I believed then, as I do now, that most human beings are basically good, evil exists, it is real, and it is frightening. It appears to be far more prevalent in the 21st century.

It was during that part of my education that I formed a belief which is far more real today than it was in the late 1960’s and 70’s. “God’s biggest mistake was the creation of man.

Not a single of God’s creatures destroys what He created for the sole purpose of increasing its personal wealth. This is unique among HHomo sapiens. Animals use our soil, water, and clean air as intended.

Animals have never plotted the destruction of another species based on unwarranted anger, hatred, or jealousy.

Although our Founding Fathers made mistakes, they were not intentional. Their mistakes were the result of their faith in the inherent goodness of mankind. Sadly, their naiveite created what exists in Washington today. All three branches of our government are corrupt and beyond salvation. Their greed and personal ambitions have become their priorities. These men and women ignore the needs and wishes of all 340 million men, women, and children.

If right-wing extremists are successful, they will have destroyed the intent of the men and women who bravely left their homeland to create a new nation which would guarantee all of its citizens complete equality and a promise to protect their individual freedoms unlike any other nation. Desire for great wealth and power is destroying everything promised by the First Amendment.

:The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”  Joseph Conrad

Op-ed by James Turnage, “TheWiseOldFart”