My belief about human nature is best summarized by the thoughts of Fr. Montaigne. I think that the idea that man is hypocritical and contradictory is a true idea. All people, whether they like it or not, have opposing characteristics. These undesirable attributes are prevailing in everybody. Not one person, of reasonable intelligence, can truthfully say that they have never lied. Even, if they are mostly truthful, there is time in everybody's life that a …showed first 75 words of 537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 537 total…in life to make me the person that I am. In closing, God works in mysterious ways. If a person believes that they know everything about the Lord, what is the purpose of following their religion? Man is often confused about their life, the way they are, what they want to become. Human nature may account for some of this but the rest is left up to the person alone to figure out and overcome.