“If I understand you correctly, are you saying that to the extent that Jennifer Murphy is a liberal policy advisor, she is a Satanist? This is a slanderous rash judgment.”
In reply, a joke:
Q: What is the difference between a leftist and a Satanist?
A: A Satanist knows who he’s working for.
I don’t know whether Jenny supports all these bad things personally. It doesn’t seem likely that she’s not on board, but I guess it could happen. For the sake of arguing the principle, though, I’m going to go with my first assumption.
No, not a Satanist, but every leftist is under Satan’s influence to one degree or another. And that is only slanderous if false, and not rash at all. Satan does a lot more than people think.
“We are all sinners: you, me and everybody we have ever been in contact with.”
The French apparently have a saying, “If you invite evil into your heart, it will make a home there.” There is a difference between your run-of-the-mill sinner and someone who has allowed Satan in, whether he is aware of it or not.
“We all act on the basis of incomplete knowledge, unsure understanding, and fallible assumptions.”
The words that come to mind are “tendentiously even-handed.” Let me try to think of some things that “we all” don’t do, or, at least, not to the same degree.
We don’t all accept that good is evil and evil good.
We don’t all reject the concept of sin, and punishment for sin.
We don’t all hate God, as well as everything that is good and decent.
We don’t all burn with malice toward everyone to fails to support Satan’s agenda.
“That being said, I’ll assume she is acting with as much good will as she can muster, just as I do.”
What does that matter, when she believes that evil is good and good is evil? The more “good” she tries to do, the more evil she wreaks. The ancients said, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” I would say whom Satan would destroy he first blinds to reason.
“Usually this ignorance can be mitigated, to some degree, by better information and better reasoning.”
And that brings us back where we started. I do not observe that the ignorance can be mitigated, to any degree, by anything. This is so odd, so troubling, that I attribute it to Satan’s work in blinding people to reason, and to his convincing them that good is evil and vice versa.
“I know that works with me.”
Of course it does. But you’re not one of them.
“If reasoning fails, then the only things left are prayer for conversion or brute force. We ought to try reason and prayer first.”
That reasoning has been going on since...well, let’s just keep it to our era: since before I was born. My take is that it has failed, as it had to.
As for prayer, certainly. However, I still think He wants us to resist Evil.
You have jumped to the worst possible conclusions about this woman, Jennifer Murphy, about whom you know next to nothing.
In the end, I hope you receive a better judgment than you give.