What a Terrible Day

I was scanning CNN and happened to wonder over to the U.S. news.  On the side they have little sub-categories for the different regions.  As I was scanning them, it popped out to me that they were all negative stories!  Check out some of the headlines:  “Radio to blame for apartment fire” from WPRI.   “Teen playing with explosive loses leg” from WPXI.  “Drivers clean up after 50-car pileup” from WMUR.   “Officer accuse of beating boy” from WYFF.  “Girl missing after online chat” from WSB.  “Ambulances collide during runs” from WKMG.  “Graffiti litters walls of oldest city” from WJXT.  That’s from half of the headlines, or two of the four sections.  Total of ten headlines, and only one of them was really positive (it was a story of how a vet saved a puppy), the other was more neutral (it was about some hunger strike over a budget).  8 out of 10 of the stories were negative.  That is really bad.  Whoever said that humans are basically good?

I don’t see it.  Show me the good that humans are naturally gifted with.  Point out a scene of pristine good deeds, uncorrupted by selfish motives or dull obligation.  Maybe soldiers count, or firemen, or police; but is there no sense of duty there?  Is there no sense of selfish motives?  Often, when people talking about joining the Army, they’ll say something like “I felt I needed to do something for my country,” or “What I was doing in my old job just wasn’t making me happy.”  Is that not selfish, at its heart?  Humanists like Carl Rogers just got it wrong.  People aren’t basically good.  If we were, we wouldn’t want to disobey our parents and eat the cookie before dinner.  If we were, we wouldn’t want to act one way at school and another way at home.  If we were, they would be no need for Jesus.

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