I don't know, but occasionally I can't help but think that human nature is inherently evil, and we live an existence that awards pagan conceptions of "good" and "evil."
That is, to be good is to be pretty, romantic, rich, popular, sociable, strong, powerful, dominant. To be evil is to be weak, pathetic, ugly, poor, antisocial, unemployed, impotent.
Seriously, every human society, and even fundamental human interactions operate at this level. Look at the statistics; people who are bullied throughout high school usually end up in poverty, unemployed, and ugly, whereas the bullies end up as successful businessmen or engineers. You'll notice a correlation between people who are successful and beauty; criminals tend to be ugly people and beautiful people tend to be successful. You'll notice that some people will commit all kinds of "sins" such as fornication, murder, theft, snorting cocaine, and will face NO ramifications for it, while others will do the same and their lives are ruined.
I mean, this even extends to the Church. Let's not kid ourselves; nearly every single Saint story involves a pretty young man or woman, usually white and beautiful who lives a life full of sin, that includes sex, power, riches, wealth, vanity, violence; and then they have that moment where they "grow up" and view the past as "vanity." It really says a lot about "Christians" when all we do is canonize rich, pretty people, kings and queens, rich philosophers and politicians. What, you think Saint John Chrysostom, who seized the political ecclesial throne of Constantinople, was merely just a regular old dude?
Give me a break.
Nobody cares about that ugly, deformed peasant that died in the streets in Constantinople and into the hands of Christ. God's Church apparently doesn't care enough about such people to be a role model to others, to endure your suffering.
I've accepted the fact that this world is inherently unjust, and you are a damn fool trying to find justice in it.
But it begs the question - considering that we are so evil and corrupt that it even affects the Church, how the hell can we be merely "corrupted" rather than "evil" in of itself? Can you imagine being a human being without being attracted to beauty and power? The idea of Jesus as just "one of us dudes" who "chose to never sin" seems ridiculous more and more day by day, how can one not even unintentionally sin in our very essence?
Despite the fact that you will shake your fist at the wind towards the 1% in this country, you will still pay 15$ to go see a fantasy movie about beautiful, pretty, even sexy people fight in wars or supervillains.
