The Left just has a fundamental problem with “evil”. They don’t think it exists. This is a big reason they hate Christianity, since Christianity is very big on the concept of “right and wrong”. The Left feels threatened by such things. Just yesterday there was a thread here about a journalist who had a problem with JRR Tolkien and his depiction of Orcs as “evil”. For the journalist, this was just pure racism and totally unPC. Orcs are not “evil”, they are just misunderstood.
If there is no “evil” then no one needs a gun. Simple, eh?
If there is no “evil” then no one needs a gun. Simple, eh?
And Jeffrey Dahmer had every right to play with his food. /s
As with that old song Imagine: imagine a world with no right and wrong, where people no longer try to be good, and the magical thinking of many is that we won’t become bad.
But the reality is very different.
Consider the metaphor of Alice’s looking glass to help illustrate.
On one side of the glass there was the innocence and derivative holiness attributed to Adam and Eve. The thing about this story is that it describes people for whom only three things that they could have had done had any moral consequences. They could have eaten from the fruit of the tree of life. They could have had children born in holiness. They did eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But before that with so little of the innumerable things that they might have done having no moral or ethical consequences their “goodness” is what I term indiscriminatly good.
They had only two rules: have kids, don’t eat from tTotKoG&E.
When they ate the forbidden fruit they went from being holy beings to being merely moral beings and EVERYTHING they could do came with moral and ethical complications. They went from being free to being bound by endless concerns. The nature that they passed on to their kids was one that was drawn to either good or evil but which was powerless to actually be good. This is what I call being discriminately evil in that they and we are not good and when at our best in our own strength we desire to be good, to discriminate against the evil we would otherwise do.
But being discriminately evil is not the mirror image of being indiscriminately good, that would be bring indiscriminately evil.
So back to the looking glass: all of human history, all our civilization, art and so forth has not been on the other side of the looking glass but entirely contained within it.
The people who, like Lennon, “imagine” that they can cease trying to be right and good think they will return to the innocence and purity they think defines their real nature ... but if they do that they only pass through the looking glass and become as fallen as fallen can be. They unleash the evil they cannot accept of themselves. Rules become only power, their power they think, and they become and reproduce only monsters, once-Men.
You cannot vomit up the proverbial apple. It was digested long ago.
The only solution is to eliminate it, to pass it out. To become discriminately good brings, holy beings. In Scripture, cumulating at the Cross, the Lord addressed this need. Ultimately the Lord had to pay the price because we couldn’t and cannot, not even a tiny bit of it, That’s why it was so important for Him to say it is finished. When we put our trust in Him according to the only provision that He has offered even though we may still be in the looking glass, the world, we have an anchor on the right side of the glass and are being drawn back out to where He is. We won’t forget about morality, but with holiness restored we will no longer be drawn to any evil and no longer able to be deceived that we would want it ever again.
Society is both cause and cure: No one is inherently evil. Thus, Society must have all power, in order to redeem the lost person whom Society has failed.
A FReeper (fishtank?) has the tagline: Denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.
Fundamentally, the left IS evil.