30 October 2006
This last Sunday my pastor preached as to vision---Noting the slow failure of physical sight with age and the need to develop spiritual vision over our lives. He noted that when we open our spiritual eyes we should see good in those about us---Even if they were, as The Christ forgave, those who did not know what they were doing as they crucified Him.
Yes---There is much good and beauty in our physical and spiritual worlds; Which we should easily recognized and strongly acknowledge. The old Navajo prayer may say much about that: “Beauty before me; Beauty behind; Beauty above and below me; Beauty all about me”.
Yet---I cannot share my pastor's Franciscan and rose-colored view of the world and some of its people. Beyond carelessness, beyond ignorance, beyond just plain stupidity and disregard of others, THERE IS EVIL! There are the Adolf Hitlers, the Pol Pots, the Molly Yards, the Joseph Stalins, the Charles Mansons, the banal evil of Adolf Eichmann and others of their ilk.
The requirement of sound spiritual vision requires the ability to discern evil in people and their words and actions.
Perhaps, based on words and 1400-years of history to this very day, the classic example of a evil person is that liar, false-prophet, murderer and sexual pervert Mohammed, who claimed that his convenient-to-himself teachings came from the Creator. They have been proved to be the basis of a criminal ideology based on rape, murder, revenge, genocide, robbery, lies and the destruction of real religions and civilized cultures.
The present age has produced its like examples of the worship-of-death (Especially as to abortion), the opposition to other points-of-view and like errors in what is becoming known as “Secular Humanism” or “Secular Progressiveness”.
The discernment of evil requires the supporter of what is good and beautiful to take such actions, as forceful and violent as is necessary, to crush, burn out and destroy what is evil.
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