Can Mankind be "Good" without God?

The following is a Journal excerpt of mine from Jan 9, '07:

"Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses the way." ~Pr. 19:2
"Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good." ~Pr. 19:8

I was just watching "The National" tonight, namely the section called "The Lens". What they attempted to search out was the question, "Can mankind be good without God?"... What I appreciate about the program is that people are thinking and talking "educated-ly" about it. What I hate about it is all the lies of Satan that are taking hold of people's lives and belief systems even (in one case on the show) despite the death of one couple's son! These are not all people who put the blindfold over their own eyes but they are so blinded by what they derive truth out of... If there is no God, and therefore no basis for good and evil, how can there be truth from which to draw at all?...
Really the question is not "Can mankind be good without God?", the answer is simple, NO! Why? because mankind cannot be good even with God!!! As Jesus himself said, "...No one is good except God alone." (Mark. 10:18) this truth is profoundly true and set forth throughout Scripture! Not only that but each day proves again and again the reality of this truth. So too history proves it's reality (i.e. WWI and WWII). From one's own life, look at yourself (your not perfect)! How can you expect good to come out of a system that rejects it's strongest Ally (God)?
Where the real nail is hit has to do with the false perception the world has on what qualifies a person to be "good"... People have watered down God's commands, and even their own consciences, because they do not understand a system in which they cannot attain that which is required of them, nor do they want to believe in such a thing. The atheist or "humanist" is not the only one with this false understanding. All religions who do not have Jesus Christ as our substitute, and faith alone in His work as a satisfaction for our sins and as the basis for salvation, fall short. They fall short because, just as the humanist, they trust in themselves or their methods. Blinded from the reality of their need they walk on their "merry" way to the pit's edge sometimes even shutting their ears to the few of us who do cry out pleading for them to change their course!
How we need people who will do all that's within their power to change the course of the multitude starting and continuing in the most important discipline, Prayer!

"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise." ~Pr. 11:30

"Father, Help me to have the wisdom and your anointing to change lives for eternity. Not that I would change lives and hearts but that you'd do that work through me, that I would be continually faithful to that which you have called me. Amen."