 |
"He who passively accepts
evil is as much involved in it as he who helps
to perpetuate it." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The worst evils
which mankind has ever had to
endure were inflicted by bad governments. The
State can be and has often been in the course of
history the main source of mischief and disaster."
– Ludwig von Mises
"I do not
fear evil; I
fear apathy.
For a decent society to overlook
base cruelty because it is directed at those
we consider unworthy of our pity shakes me to
the core; I am German and live with
the legacy of that mind-set. May God forgive us."
- Pat Sommer
"The ultimate evil on
Earth is not is not war itself but
aggression.
Aggression is the
‘mother of all
wars'. That
aggression has a
potential foothold inside every one of us. Each time
we deliberately inflict
pain on
another, we know what
we are doing. We are
doing evil." - Amos Oz
"Men never do evil
so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction."
– Blaise Pascal
Evil is
defined as:
sin
corruption
the absence of
God,
to create
fear,
morally
bad or wrong; wicked.
causing ruin, injury, or
pain;
harmful.
having or exerting a
malignant influence.
an
evil force, power, or personification.
bad or blameworthy by
report; infamous.
characterized by
anger or spite;
malicious.
that which
causes harm, misfortune, or
destruction.
the
quality of being morally bad
or wrong; wickedness.
characterized by or indicating future misfortune;
ominous.
the quality of being
morally wrong
in principle or practice.
producing or threatening sorrow,
distress, injury, or calamity.
something that is a cause or source of suffering,
injury, or destruction: the social
evils of poverty and
injustice.
having or
exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked;
wrong; vicious; as, evil
conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the
like.
anything which impairs the happiness of a being or
deprives a being of any good;
anything which causes suffering of any
category to sentient beings; injury; mischief;
harm; -- opposed to good.
moral badness, or the deviation of a
moral being from the
principles of virtue imposed by
conscience, or by
God's will, or by the
principles of a lawful human
authority; disposition to do
wrong; moral
offense; wickedness; depravity.
as used by a hacker, implies that some
system, program,
individual, or
institution is sufficiently
maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of
dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous, losing, brain-damaged
series, 'evil' does not imply
incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or
design criteria fatally
incompatible with the speaker's goals. This
usage is more an aesthetic and engineering
judgment than a moral
one in the mainstream sense.
It is this discrepancy between
what is and what ought to be which invokes a deep desire to seek an explanation
for this situation of the existence of apparent
capricious evil.
Many people tend to
think of evil as
incarnate and personified as Satan,
Lucifer,
Angra Mainyu, Iblis,
Demiurge, etcetera.
The
Old Testament prophets never
mentioned evil incarnate and personified. The
personification of evil occurs in
Talmudism, not in the original
theology of Moses, which is then carried into
Christian theology from Talmudism which has lead to a great
misunderstanding of the nature of
evil.
Talmudism, Christianity and
Islam all agree on the
existence of a supreme evil in a personified form.
Islamic conception of evil is
contained in the figure of Iblis. The
Qur'an explicitly states that
Iblis only has the power to tempt, not to compel, for mankind still has free
will to choose to follow Allah or Iblis.
In polythestic Christian theology, Satan is the name for this great being that
is chief of the dark spiritual forces that plague mankind. This accretion of
evil into the solitary figure of
Iblis or
Satan is erroneous and has resulted in centuries of ignorance
about the true nature
of evil.
The
Old Testament mentions
evil 375 times.
The
Old Testament (Council of Nicea approved) mentions
Satan 4 times:
1 Chronicles 21:1;
Job 1:6 -12; Job 2:1-7; Zechariah 3:1-2
Satan appearances in the
Old Testament can be
explained by editorial interjection - at 4 points.
The
New Testament mentions
evil 155 times.
The
New Testament mentions Satan
36 different times:
Matthew 4:10; Matthew 12:24 -29; Matthew 16:23;
Mark 1:13; Mark 3:22-23; Mark 3:26-27; Mark 4:15; Mark 8:33; Luke 10:18; Luke
11:15; Luke 11:18-21; Luke 13:16; Luke 22:3; Luke 22:31; John 12:31; John
13:27; Acts 5:3; Acts 26:18; Romans 16:20; 1 Corinthians 5:5; 1 Corinthians
7:5; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Corinthians 11:14; 2 Corinthians
12:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Timothy 1:20; 1 Timothy
2:14; 1 Timothy 5:15; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 2:13; Revelation 2:24;
Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2-3; Revelation 20:7
Evil
exists - but not as commonly
perceived.Evil has two faces. Evil threatens us from the "sea of human emotions"
from the inside and evil threatens us
externally from the material realm of worldly life. The two aspects of
evil work in unison to bring about
moral inversion.
The
first aspect is the proud, self-aggrandizing spirit that incites the personal
passions of vanity, ambition,
pride, carnality and the lust for power. This evil spirit encourages man
to act as a god among men,
to rebel against God's Natural Law,
to judge everything according to preconceived notions
based upon social conditioning delivered through electronically received
propaganda. This spirit of evil confuses minds by denying the existence of
natural morality and higher spiritual
aims thus seeking to negate these in the souls of men. This leads to the false
assumption that morality resides in institutions
which are required to control humanities "animal nature."
The
second aspect of evil fetters man to
earthly concerns and material pursuits through illusion, deception and
lies; entrapping mankind in the false belief
that contentment can be attained through pursuit of temporal riches.
It exhorts people to maximize their earthly power
by doing anything to acquire and maintain power. This aspect of
evil permeates the cold, soulless,
machine-driven social interactions on which modern "developed" social culture
is wholly dependent. The arrangement of contemporary social culture based upon
these demonically inspired systems has tended to negate charitable human
relations and reduce the individual to an impersonal
statistical cipher.
The union of these two aspects of
evil completely separates man from his spiritual inheritance by
blinding him to it. Under such
an illusion the moral
conscience of men is
insidiously attacked as irrelevant and anachronistic causing ancient
moral codes which facilitate
cooperation to be shunned and
ridiculed. This moral decay has
proceeded inexorably into the modern age wherein
life itself is vastly undervalued.
The amoral State that rises to provide a
conscience for men that
can no longer find theirs has been created as
a vehicle for total control of the actions and thoughts
of the individual. This works insidiously throughout modern social
structures and relations to
blind mankind to his spiritual
inheritance and instill an immoral
conscience that can override God's
presence/natural
conscience/Creator granted
empathy.
Understanding this will give
you the knowledge to identify the soulless
apostates that wish to tear down
God's Creation and
erect an alternative reality,
perfect in their
spiritually corrupt
imagination.
Evil resides within the individual and is revealed
in evil
actions.
"What a
disgraceful spectacle humanity presents. In
spite of its fearful wounds, humanity makes
war upon humanity. We who deal with the
sores afflicting mankind are struck more
than others by all the evil men voluntarily inflict upon one another. I am
neither a politician nor a
propagandist. It is not my business to
occupy myself with ideas. I have too much else to
do. But sometimes I am moved by a great
pity, as lofty as a dream."
The old doctor
smiled sadly at this vehemence, then his smile vanished at the
thought of the undeniable outrage.
"Unfortunately you are right. With all the misery we have to suffer, we
tear ourselves with our own hands besides--the war of the classes, the war of
the nations, whether you look at us from afar or from above, we are
barbarians and madmen."
"Why, why," said
the young doctor, who was getting excited, "why do we continue to be
fools when we recognise our own
folly?"
The old practitioner shrugged his shoulders, as he had a few
moments before when they spoke of incurable diseases.
"The force of
tradition, fanned by interested parties.
We are not free, we are attached to the past. We
study what has always been done, and do it over again--war and
injustice. Some
day perhaps humanity will succeed in ridding itself of the ghost of the
past. Let us hope that some
day we shall emerge from this endless epoch of
massacre and
misery. What else is there to do than to
hope?"
The old man stopped at this. The
young man said: "To will." The other man made a gesture with his hand.
"There is one great general cause for the world's ulcer," the younger
one kept on. "You have said it--servility to the past,
prejudice which prevents us from doing
things differently, according to reason and
morality. The spirit of tradition infects humanity,
and its two frightful manifestations are--"
The old man rose from his
chair, as if about to protest and as if to say, "Don't mention them!"
But the young man could not restrain himself any
more. "--inheritance from
past tradition and the
fatherland."
"Hush!" cried
the old man. "You are treading on ground on which I cannot follow. I recognise
present evils. I pray with all my heart for the
new era. More than that, I believe in it. But do not
speak that way about two sacred principles."
"You speak like everybody else," said the young man
bitterly. "We must go to the root of the evil, you know we must. You certainly do." And he added
violently, "Why do you act as if you did not
know it? If we wish to cure ourselves of
oppression and
war, we have a right to attack them by all
the means possible--all!--the principle of
inheritance of
tradition and the
cult of the fatherland."
"No, we haven't the right," exclaimed the old man, who had risen in
great agitation and threw a look at his interlocutor that was hard, almost
savage. "We have the right!" cried the other.
All at once, the grey head drooped, and the old man said in
a low voice: "Yes, it is true, we have the right.
I remember one day during the war.
We were standing beside a dying man. No one knew
who he was. He had been found in the debris of a
bombarded ambulance--whether
bombarded purposely or not, the result
was the same. His face had been mutilated beyond recognition. All you could
tell was that he belonged to one or other of the two armies. He moaned and
groaned and sobbed and shrieked and invented the most appalling cries. We
listened to the sounds that he made in his agony, trying to find one
word, the faintest accent, that would at least indicate
his nationality. No use. Not a single intelligible sound from that something
like a face quivering on the stretcher. We looked and listened, until he fell
silent. When he was dead and we stopped trembling, I had a flash of
comprehension. I understood. I understood in the depths of my being that man is
more closely knit to man than to his vague compatriots.
"Yes, we have a
right to question oppression and
war. I saw the truth several times afterward again, but I am an old man,
and I haven't the strength to stick to it."
"My dear sir," said the
young man, rising, with respect
in his voice. Evidently he was touched.
"Yes,
I know, I know," the
old scientist continued in an outburst of sincerity. "I
know that in spite of all the arguments and the
maze of special cases in which people lose
themselves, the absolute, simple truth remains, that
the law by which some are
born rich and others poor and
which maintains a chronic inequality in
society is a supreme
injustice. It rests on no better
basis than the law that once created races of slaves. I know
patriotism has become a narrow
offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain
war and exhaust the world. I know that
neither work nor material and
moral prosperity, nor the
noble refinements of progress, nor the
wonders of art, need competition inspired by
hate. In fact, I know that, on the contrary, these things are
destroyed by
arms. I know
that the map of a country is composed of conventional lines and different
names, that our innate love of self leads us closer to those that are like-minded than to
those who belong to the same geographical group, and we are more truly
compatriots of those who understand and love us and who
are on the level of our own souls, or who
suffer the same
slavery than of those whom we meet on the
street. The national groups, the units of the modern world, are what they are, to be sure. The
love we have for our native land would be
good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we
see it does everywhere, into vanity, the
spirit of predominance,
acquisitiveness,
hate, envy,
nationalism, and
militarism. The monstrous distortion of
the patriotic sentiment, which is
increasing, is killing off humanity.
Mankind is committing suicide, and
our age is an agony."
The two men had
the same vision and said simultaneously: "A cancer, a
cancer!"
The older scientist grew animated, succumbing to the evidence.
"I know as well as you do that posterity will
judge severely those who have made a fetich of the
institutions of
oppression and have cultivated and
spread the ideas supporting them. I
know that the cure for an abuse does not begin
until we refuse to submit to the
cult that consecrates it. And I, who have
devoted myself for half a century to the great discoveries that have changed
the face of the world, I know that in introducing an innovation one encounters
the hostility of everything that
is." - Henri Barbusse
Catholicism and
Talmudism have parallel
belief tracts - all who are about to die must repent
of their sins and the defenders of man before
divine judgment are repentance and good deeds.
"Our responsibility to
history is already
clear: to answer these attacks
and rid the Earth of evil."
George W. Bush, from The
National Security Strategy of the United States of America
2002
And how does George W.
Bush plan to rid the world of evil?
Pacification through violent
aggression!
See
religious dogma
See
American aristocracy
See
The Corruption of the American Dream
See
The Subversion of American
Democracy |
|
back to stacks
contents
 |
This web site is not a commercial web site and
is presented for educational purposes only.
This website defines a new religious
ideology to which its author adheres. The author feels that the falsification
of reality outside personal experience has created a populace unable to discern
propaganda from reality and that this has been done purposefully by an
international corporate cartel through their agents who wish to foist a corrupt
version of reality on the human race. Religious intolerance occurs when any
group refuses to tolerate religious practices, religious beliefs or persons due
to their religious ideology. This web site marks the founding of the religion
aptly named The Truth of the Way of Life - a rational religion based on reason
which requires no leap of faith, accepts no tithes, has no supreme leader, no
church buildings and in which each and every individual is encouraged to
develop a personal relation with God through the pursuit of the knowledge of
reality in the hope of curing the spiritual corruption that has enveloped the
human spirit. The tenets of The Truth of the Way of Life are spelled out in
detail on this web site by the author. Violent acts against individuals due to
their religious beliefs in America is considered a “hate
crime.”
This web site in no way condones violence. To the contrary
the intent here is to reduce the violence that is already occurring due to the
international corporate cartels desire to control the human race. The
international corporate cartel already controls the world central banking
system, mass media worldwide, the industrial military complex of America and is
responsible for the collapse of morals, the elevation of self-centered behavior
and the destruction of global ecosystems. Civilization is based on cooperation.
Cooperation does not occur at the point of a gun.
American social mores
and values have declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt
international cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the
ability to deceive the populace in general through mass media by pressing
emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through
prior mass media psychological operations. The results have been the
destruction of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not
adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a perfect world. Through
distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population
has been directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite
that further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.
All views and opinions presented on this web site are the views and
opinions of individual human men and women that, through their writings, showed
the capacity for intelligent, reasonable, rational, insightful and unpopular
thought. All factual information presented on this web site is believed to be
true and accurate and is presented as originally presented in print media which
may or may not have originally presented the facts truthfully. Opinion and
thoughts have been adapted, edited, corrected, redacted, combined, added to,
re-edited and re-corrected as nearly all opinion and thought has been
throughout time but has been done so in the spirit of the original writer with
the intent of making his or her thoughts and opinions clearer and relevant to
the reader in the present time.
Fair Use Notice
This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has
not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making
such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of criminal
justice, human rights, political, economic, democratic, scientific, and social
justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such
copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the United States
Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on
this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included information for research and educational
purposes. For more information see: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If
you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own
that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
|
 Copyright
© Lawrence Turner
All Rights Reserved
|