The word evil like the word sin has got a bad rap from the pseudo scientific atheists masquerading as secularists.
The trend isn’t new and hopefully will burst soon like the pimple on progress it is.
The liberal arts crowd took Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ and created the “Social Darwinism” insisting those with the most toys wins. Very Marxian in it’s own way. Rather reductionist and wholly unscientific.
The Darwinian hypothesis still devolving hasn’t bridged the lack of inter species evidence. It’s defenders argue now that it’s influence can be seen at the ‘genetic level’ becoming more and more a ‘matter of faith’ than any religion before it. The trouble is ‘mutation’ and it’s tendency to die. Difficult when a whole science is underpinned by something so, well, fragile. Not at all robust.
Owen Barfields treatise on ‘saving the appearances” and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn are worthy explanations of these injudicious times. We are living in what the the Asians described as a period for equal opportunity for success or failure. In other words, chaos.
Similarly language imperialism is rampant. The internet fans the flames such that superficial or shallow knowledge of a word or ‘meme’ is more important than the in depth understanding that once made the Oxford dictionary so desirable. Today words like ‘gay’ or ‘Snowflake’ or ‘conservative’ or ‘progressive’ are changing so fast that today’s professive is really regressive and snowflakes are indeed the hot item.
Yet evil remains, quite unadulterated. . Bad has fallen to the relative truth group. Bad is good. But not evil. Why is that?
Sin is another word that remains off the record. The modern media doesn’t want to consider sin but will embrace ‘fake’ news.
Today, statements about morality and evil are tied to ideas like ‘the winner writes history’ and the ‘ends justifies the means’. One would not expect a book like Persig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to sell today. Yet “50 shades of Grey” is the most popular female book of today even if it is porn.
Even pedophilia which at very least is unhealthy for one is being considered byh the new world order of globalism, in which pedophiles argue they are the ‘oppressed’. PM Justin Trudeau just changed to age of consent? for ‘beastiality’.
What is ‘verboten” today?
‘Everything goes.” “If it feels good, do it”. Yet a day doesn’t go by that that a new diet is conceived and everything has become ‘unhealthy’.
What is evil?
The greatest evil historically was ‘pride’ . Humility was a sense of the ‘right size’ of oneself. Pride goest before a fall. But if as PM Justin Trudeau says, if you kill your enemy, he wins, then clearly pride, such as his selfie addiction is alright. Nothing really is wrong. Unfashionable, perhaps but not ‘wrong wrong”.
But what is evil? Historically it was consider ‘unhealthy’.
Since we all die everything we do can be considered unhealthy. Healthy historically stood for the quantity and quality of life. But Andy Warhol said everyone deserved their 15 minutes of fame. But as the physician is now not just the handmaiden of life but also of death, euthanasia being big bucks, the Hippocrates Oath is out.
So what is evil?
Once there was the idea of evolution and devolution. Once there was an idea of a heaven and a hell. Once there was an idea of good and evil.
Today if there is no evil there is no good, surely.
So what of evil. What of sin. Best we not talk of them. They might well be construed as ‘hate’ speech.
What is evil?
Some would say its Satan acting anonymously but that would be a personification besides which we know that perception is as much as what is inside as outside.
Wouldn’t such a person who talks about Evil negatively be “Evil Phobic.”
So sad.
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