{"id":3438,"date":"2007-01-08T00:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2026-07-11T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:17:21","slug":"hope-hate-and-human-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope, Hate and Human Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/index.php?p=464&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\"><\/a>by <\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong>Kjos Ministries\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAre humans naturally good &#8212; or evil? In today&#8217;s postmodern, post-Christian era, senseless violence is rising along with immorality, insolence and intolerance. Thanks to high tech media, those signs of the times reach around the world. While gang warfare erodes personal security in America, an article in the British Financial Times describes the chaos in Palestine:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gangland slayings in the Palestinian territories this week have pitted the Islamist gunmen of Hamas against the secular forces of Fatah. The killings defy civilized norms: in December even children were targeted for murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the killings also defy political common sense. Ariel Sharon&#8217;s wall cuts terrorists off from Israeli targets and what happens? The violence &#8211; previously justified with the cause of a Palestinian homeland &#8211; continues as if nothing had changed, merely finding its outlet in a new set of targets. This makes it appear that Palestinian violence has never really been about a &#8217;cause&#8217; at all. The violence is, in a strange way, about itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are told that the impetus for this ongoing warfare isn&#8217;t Islamic Jihad. Instead, it&#8217;s driven &#8212; not by religious zeal, but by universal rage and a thirst for violence. At least, that&#8217;s what Gunnar Heinsohn, a German social scientist and genocide researcher seems to suggest. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/007\/heart.htm\">Click here to read entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kjos Ministries\u00a0 Are humans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-christian-faith","wpcat-191-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hope, Hate and Human Hearts - From the Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hope, Hate and Human Hearts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Kjos Ministries\u00a0 Are humans...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"From the Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LighthouseTrailsResearch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-01-08T04:44:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-11T20:17:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Berit Kjos\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@LTrails\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Berit Kjos\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Berit Kjos\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/bcd72e4c7c122fc6311533580714029a\"},\"headline\":\"Hope, Hate and Human Hearts\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-01-08T04:44:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-11T20:17:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"FAITH\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\\\/blog\\\/hope-hate-and-human-hearts\\\/\",\"name\":\"Hope, Hate and Human Hearts - 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