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EVIL---WHAT IS IT

6/21/2018

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When Joe Biden visited the Kremlin in 2011, he reportedly said to Putin: “Mr Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.” According to Biden, Putin smiled and replied, “We understand each other.”
 
Many of those who choose to overlook the well-documented egregious acts of Trump seem to think of evil as a generic term to define societal ills, that evil itself has no singular identity. The Evangelicals inexplicable support of Trump supports the notion that one is to believe that the goodness of God now embraces man’s evil. It is ok to commit adultery, lie, cheat, etc. Modern Evangelicals have re-created God. In the past, there existed a dualistic world-view within religious groups; good and evil were separate forces. Not now. I grew up in that environment, taught that good would prevail over evil because of a holy God. So, you can understand my confusion when I see people who say they embrace that God, yet shout that in this modern age it’s okay to be evil.
It is not new.  David Cesarani wrote in his book Eichmann: His Life and Crimes that Eichmann took part in the Holocaust because he wanted to do so. In this he was no different from many others, though his crimes were larger in scale. Until it was clear that the war was lost, Nazism was extremely popular. William Shirer reported in his eyewitness account of the rise of Hitler, The Nightmare Years:
“Most Germans, so far as I could see, did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work were being regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation … On the whole, people did not seem to feel that they were being cowed and held down by an unscrupulous tyranny. On the contrary, they appeared to support it with genuine enthusiasm.”
 
Freud suggested that human beings are ruled by impulses or instincts, impelling them towards life and creation or destruction and death. He cautioned against thinking that these forces embodied good and evil in any simple way. Whether they worked together or in opposition, both were necessary. The fragility of civilization reflected the divided nature of the human animal itself. This seems to be the path Evangelicals and many others who embrace God travel. Good and evil are two sides of the same coin, both are choices. And therein lies the problem that must be resolved. Is there truly evil or is it simply a bad choice. If simply a choice, then what is God’s role? If as Freud suggests, we are slaves to our impulses, where is God? Those Evangelicals with their new God would have us believe that God not withstanding, when we feel threatened it is just fine to have feelings of anti-Semitism, ethnic nationalism, hatred of gay people, immigrants, etc. God is with us.
 
One of my fears is that Trump’s acts aren’t rejected because many of his supporters endorse them. They admire one who acts tyrannically, much as did the Germans with Hitler. And this becomes much easier with their re-created God.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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What The Heck Is Happening

6/16/2018

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​We have become Hitler’s America, with a ruler who does and says whatever he pleases and a Congress that is too insipid to react. Read history and see the parallels. I am now officially concerned. When our government disses our long time friends for butchers, we have----well, you figure it out. Oh, a few members of Congress will whine but have you seen a single one stand up and yell, THIS ISN’T RIGHT! What will we do next to the immigrants and their children? Load them into trains and take them to camps?? The German citizens bought into Hitler’s insanity about the Jews that their removal was necessary to protect the race, just as we are buying into the theme that all must speak English and worship Jesus. Please, I’m not speaking as a Liberal, which I am, but as a concerned American. We are losing control of our government. This nation needs a voter revolution, beginning by a few million marching to Washington and taking over Congress. If you agree with my concern, please share this.
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What the Hell is Happening We have become Hitler’s America, with a ruler who does and says whatever he pleases and a Congress that is too insipid to react. Read history and see the parallels. I am now officially concerned. When our government disses ou

6/16/2018

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What the Hell is Happening

​We have become Hitler’s America, with a ruler who does and says whatever he pleases and a Congress that is too insipid to react. Read history and see the parallels. I am now officially concerned. When our government disses our long time friends for butchers, we have----well, you figure it out. Oh, a few members of Congress will whine but have you seen a single one stand up and yell, THIS ISN’T RIGHT! What will we do next to the immigrants and their children? Load them into trains and take them to camps?? The German citizens bought into Hitler’s insanity about the Jews that their removal was necessary to protect the race, just as we are buying into the theme that all must speak English and worship Jesus. Please, I’m not speaking as a Liberal, which I am, but as a concerned American. We are losing control of our government. This nation needs a voter revolution, beginning by a few million marching to Washington and taking over Congress. If you agree with my concern, please share this.
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    My name is Richard Biggs and I'm a writer. My latest book is about Jerry Allen LeQuire, a convicted drug kingpin, who rejected two offers from the CIA to work for them, and has been in a federal prison for over 30 years.

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