Re: An even darker view:
Hmh. Fair point. My Western-European myopia is showing. :)
I suppose my comments mainly apply to the Abhramic faiths, then.
I still have a hard time buying off on Buddhism and Hinduism, though, because if it's just our free will, then it should be like a coin toss, where we're just as likely to do good as to do bad, except that it's clearly not - once again, about 75 percent of the species is not only fucking up, but is fucking up in exactly the same ways, and even when those fuck-up should have wiped us out already, they instead seem to have insured that those most likely to make such fuck-ups actually become most dominant and prosperous.
What this suggests to me is that the game is rigged in evil's favor. There IS a watchmaker, and he's the type of sick fuck who masturbates to Eli Roth movies.