Man in his innate human nature is good, but subjects himself to evils. It is the battle of the conscience between good and bad which drives the continuous cycle of sin and redemption. "With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards. " (p 17) As man lives on, trafficking in the depths of sin, he not only is turning his soul black, he is distorting the self to an unrecognizable state.
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