Without War To Compare It Against, Peace Would Be Meaningless
by Joe?Pulcinella
Or so goes the neo-con thinking behind this sorry excuse for why God allows for evil.
I think life is a constant battle between good and evil. there will always be evil as long as there is good. having a world where all was peaceful and nothing bad ever happened would cause as much havoc as a world of disorder. There is no way for god to stop all evil, unless he perfomed thousands of personal miracles for each individual, and people do not take well to that kind of power.
By definition, an evil act, is something sinister and morally wrong, but morals would not exist if there was no evil, if everything was always good. the world needs the good and the bad to function as a society. It is not within our power to blame god for not stopping evil, as he does not show himself in the real world. its not our possition to ask for god to solve all our problems, we need to learn to do that on our own.
And everyone wonders why I don't subscribe to religious or political party apologists.
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This one is easy. Either you believe God is a being capable of creating a perfect, self -sustaining system, or you don't. Within that system, you either act according to moral (natural) laws, or you don't. Either God gives you free will, or you have free will as a creature of nature. You can use your free will for things that are good for others, neutral for others, or bad for others. In the end, it is all your choice to do evil, or not. God doesn't step in, "play dice" , whatever. Evil isn't "in the world", evil begins and ends in the hearts of men, who care nothing for their brothers, but only themselves. When the day comes that good triumphs over evil, the world will not miss the evil.
Chris Manion had an excellent article on LRC today where he quotes Pope Benedict; "''How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world,'' he told the pilgrims in Saint Peter?’s Square. In his review of the perilous condition of the world, he observed, "nothing positive comes from Iraq, torn apart by continual slaughter as the civil population flees." This is the man that the Bush-loving mainstream press tried to paint as a Nazi when he was first selected. A Nazi! What Nazi ever spoke anything like that?
God wasn't even the point I was trying to make. The point was that this is Rovian thinking at its best (worst?). It's the very core of the "perpetual war for perpetual peace" bullshit that passes for "diplomacy" in the administration.
Nor mine either - the author of the piece was trying to imply that evil is somehow necessary for God to do his job, a proposition that seems to make sense if you are a warmongering idiot.
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