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mibn2cweus - Thank you for your thoughtful and considered reply.
The value system you criticise, is one of sacrifice, Christs loving sacrifice for us. We are thieves and murderers if you like, because without our sin, no penalty would have had to be paid, (Christs death on the cross), but He did it for us, because we are incapable of saving ourselves.
I too take full responsibility for my mistakes, and pay for them in this life, but I am guilty of an offence against an infinite being, so unless I accept His forgiveness, I remain infinitely guilty.
Christians should not consider themselves superior, for refusing to accept the materielistic reality as presented to them, but on the contrarary, should consider themselves the servants of all, whilst believing in the totality of reality, material and spiritual, as revealed to them through lifes experiences, and the written word of God. Superiority has no place in the Christian life.
God did get it right first time. He knew that giving free will to His creation would involve acceptance and rejection, and the rejection would involve the fall of Man, and then Gods plan to redeem Man, as a display of his infinite love, and to His greater glory.
You are right to say that the universe is an evil place, as the whole of creation is corrupted, through sin, and the Bible explains this.
I doubt you have been "blinded by the light", but are simply exercising your God given free will.