C. S. Lewis characterized evil as goodness pursued in a wrong way (which is why he discarded dualism, of utterly independent good and evil powers, as a philosophy).
Anyhow, Alinsky and his Lucifer is not an exception to this. Even Lucifer wanted glory, but his problem was that he couldn’t generate any; only God could generate it. Had Lucifer remained humble and not fallen, he would have been gifted with more and better glory than his now stolen and finite glory.
It is a sad story of neglecting the riches right under one’s nose. But God permitted this choice to happen rather than to force anyone to love Him as a puppet.
I’m trying once more to highlight the choice of these riches, but I can’t stuff it down anyone’s throat either. If you don’t want it, I won’t make you want it. But it comes from God. I’m just making a big noise about it.
Very well put!
It has been my experience that evil people always have a good given talent or ability that is perverted and twisted to their selfish desires.
It is always the same. Selfishness taken to an extreme.
However, Honest, truly good Godly people are never the same. They exhibit multiple, ever changing talents and skills that grow them as a human, meanwhile evil rots the self from the inside.
Humans are like every thing in the universe, it is either in the process of growing or dying. It is possible to evolve beyond the physical if so fortunate.