Spirited: At issue here is evil. Why does it exist and what can be done about it?
From the time of the Founders it was understood and accepted that man is both good and bad, thus within each man exists the very real possibility of evil. The way to restrain man’s dark side is through morality—Biblical morality to be specific-—and by diluting power, that is, preventing power from accumulating in the hands of one or a relative small number of people.
Because America’s Progressive Liberals reject the Fall they see no evil within themselves. No matter how obscene their language and actions, they are the essence of ‘good.’
To Liberals, evil exists external to man. It exists in guns, in morality, in genes, in the traditional family, in property ownership, and in all people contaminated by evil systems (i.e., Biblical Christianity and faithful Judaism)giving rise to free market ideas, ideas of individual freedom, ideas that only two sexes exist, etc.
If Alexander Solzhenitsyn were alive he would tell you that America’s Progressive Libs are Manichaean Gnostics, just as were the Soviet Unions Marxist Communists. Seeing no evil within themselves, when they looked upon Russia they saw evil everywhere and like avenging angels fell upon and destroyed every source of it (i.e., churches, priests, property, family), including 60,000,000 men, women, and children contaminated by evil.
We cannot understand Progressive Liberal insanity until we understand what they believe about evil.
Well said.
The Left will ascribe ‘evil’ to you with your blood still hot on their hands.
Worth repeating.
“At issue here is evil. Why does it exist and what can be done about it?”
spirited irish - that is one of the most thoughtful and incisive essays I have read in quite some time. Thanks for sharing that.