Let's say you belong to a certain blood cult, and are incensed that the entire world doesn't bend the knee and the neck to Allah.....
How to change the views of all those Westerners who have other beliefs and priorities......
Hmmmm......how about this?
Maybe if you blow up a few dozen of the non-believers who are on their way to earn their daily bread.....not a single one of whom is known to you....
....yeah!....That's the ticket!!!
It may be insane, but it has happened over and over under the auspices of one Leftist iteration after another.
1. Possibly, there are many explanations for the causes of evil that are acceptable.
The simple 'love of money is the root of all evil' has been explored here
Money As The Root of All Evil???
…and found to be less than sufficient as an explanation.
Under the secular view, biblical explanations have been found wanting….
(Genesis 3:1-16, Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11)
2. Perhaps there is an idea that society moves like a glacier, slowly and with a direction near impossible to alter…..unless there is a resort to violence, murder, oppression…….evil.
"The Kwan family met the Youth Brigade in their living room, which had shrunk to the size of a prison cell due to the number of shouting youth surrounding the family. They gazed at the youth in bewilderment unable to understand the evil that they had done.
“Do you repent? Do you confess to clinging to the old values?”
“Confess and seek reeducation and we will spare you!”
“You are guilty of old thought, old culture, old values…”
“You have built a lackey’s empire on the backs of the people!”
Kwan and his wife, along with their twelve-year-old son were bound and defenseless.
“You are part of the old…”
The tall leader of the cadre engages in a furious dialectic, spittle flying from his mouth.
“You are part of the old! Do you repent?”
With every line he spoke, he swung the black baton, heavy as a cricket bat.
“You will reform your decadent ways!”
“The old ways are a threat to the collective good of the people!”
“You will die if you retain your old beliefs!”
“Repent! Reject the old! Admit you have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought!”
It continued for endless minutes- until the blows the student rained down stole the life from the family. The iron-tipped baton left bloody forms at his feet as he recited the catechism the students thirstily sought to hear." From the novel “The Stone Monkey,” by Jeffery Deaver
The proponent of evil isn't usually some low-level imbecile, such as the Bangladeshie who torched himself today in Times Square.
The more accomplished proponents of evil are more like this:
3. "There is always the professor of violence - realist, zealot, ideologue, the sort of speechmaking activist intellectual you find in Malraux, or Al Qaeda, always out of the middle class, a doctor or engineer or some such-who lays it down that evil is the price of change. The professor usually has a taste for especially dramatic and ostentatious evil, even a curious longing, almost a nostalgia, to put his intelligence to work commandeering brute horror, as if this violent mating of brains and bestiality would surely bring forth a better world, utopia."
Lance Morrow, "Evil: An Investigation, "p.118
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How to change the views of all those Westerners who have other beliefs and priorities......
Hmmmm......how about this?
Maybe if you blow up a few dozen of the non-believers who are on their way to earn their daily bread.....not a single one of whom is known to you....
....yeah!....That's the ticket!!!
It may be insane, but it has happened over and over under the auspices of one Leftist iteration after another.
1. Possibly, there are many explanations for the causes of evil that are acceptable.
The simple 'love of money is the root of all evil' has been explored here
Money As The Root of All Evil???
…and found to be less than sufficient as an explanation.
Under the secular view, biblical explanations have been found wanting….
(Genesis 3:1-16, Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Matthew 4:1-11)
2. Perhaps there is an idea that society moves like a glacier, slowly and with a direction near impossible to alter…..unless there is a resort to violence, murder, oppression…….evil.
"The Kwan family met the Youth Brigade in their living room, which had shrunk to the size of a prison cell due to the number of shouting youth surrounding the family. They gazed at the youth in bewilderment unable to understand the evil that they had done.
“Do you repent? Do you confess to clinging to the old values?”
“Confess and seek reeducation and we will spare you!”
“You are guilty of old thought, old culture, old values…”
“You have built a lackey’s empire on the backs of the people!”
Kwan and his wife, along with their twelve-year-old son were bound and defenseless.
“You are part of the old…”
The tall leader of the cadre engages in a furious dialectic, spittle flying from his mouth.
“You are part of the old! Do you repent?”
With every line he spoke, he swung the black baton, heavy as a cricket bat.
“You will reform your decadent ways!”
“The old ways are a threat to the collective good of the people!”
“You will die if you retain your old beliefs!”
“Repent! Reject the old! Admit you have been seduced by unbeneficial and decadent thought!”
It continued for endless minutes- until the blows the student rained down stole the life from the family. The iron-tipped baton left bloody forms at his feet as he recited the catechism the students thirstily sought to hear." From the novel “The Stone Monkey,” by Jeffery Deaver
The proponent of evil isn't usually some low-level imbecile, such as the Bangladeshie who torched himself today in Times Square.
The more accomplished proponents of evil are more like this:
3. "There is always the professor of violence - realist, zealot, ideologue, the sort of speechmaking activist intellectual you find in Malraux, or Al Qaeda, always out of the middle class, a doctor or engineer or some such-who lays it down that evil is the price of change. The professor usually has a taste for especially dramatic and ostentatious evil, even a curious longing, almost a nostalgia, to put his intelligence to work commandeering brute horror, as if this violent mating of brains and bestiality would surely bring forth a better world, utopia."
Lance Morrow, "Evil: An Investigation, "p.118
Need an example of such?
Coming up.....
