Reply #85: The cruelty and greed has always been there.

[wildeyed]

We are humans, we have our character defects and greed and cruelty are big ones. The problem now is that instead of calling these characteristics shortcomings or sins, if you will, they are now the highest virtue.

It was hard to not be greedy, so instead we decided that greed was good, that God wanted us to be greedy, and the fact our financial success was God's way of rewarding our spiritual fitness :crazy:

When God conveniently hates all the same people you hate and wants you to do all the things that you want to do, it could be that you are creating God in your image instead of the reverse.

In addition, the MBA programs all teach unrestrained greed and cruelty as a virtue, and that is mostly who is running this country now, so it is not surprising that their attitudes are seeping into mainstream culture. If people ever figure out that the majority of us are on the losing end of that game, which only has a few very big winners, but many, many losers, then we might see some changes. I am not holding my breath.