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Slogan 6: "God knows our hearts and good people will be okay" — people are not actually good

Stop Saying All Roads Lead to God! 00:48:03 – 00:52:43

Final and most substantial of the six slogans

Winger cites Dr. Clay Jones, who has spent his career studying genocide and the problem of evil. Key findings: (1) Every genocide researcher agrees that it is the average, normal member of a population who commits genocide — not monsters, but ordinary people who smile at you and would return your wallet; (2) The majority of any culture that participates in mass killings finds a way to justify it — they feel righteous about their evil. People in prison always have a hierarchy of justification: "I only stole from the rich," "I only killed people who deserved it," "at least I'm not a pedophile." (3) As a contemporary example: the United States has aborted over 60 million babies, and the majority of the culture justifies it. This is ordinary human wickedness at scale.

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