Do you seriously think that a country that spends more on defense than China, Russia, India, UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea combined is going to make a serious effort to curb physical or psychological violence? Narcissists don’t care who they destroy, including their own friends and family.
It’s going to take a MAJOR movement to change course.
There are so many ways to look at Dr Lee’s argument about ethics and legality. Would we fail to throw a bucket of water on a fire and leave it to burn? That’s basically what Trump did at the beginning of the pandemic. Even knowing how contagious and severe it was, they refused to give Governors life support machines for the hospitals.
That last paragraph is profound, true, and sure to be shot down with extreme prejudice. If enacted, it would immediately be twisted to use in an attack on all religion, since some regard faith in anything higher than man as dangerous superstition. Not without reason, since religion has many forms that indeed do psychological damage. But truth will be attacked along with it.
I believe God exists, but evil also exists, and the explanation I find persuasive is that God gives free will to both us and those out there with Him. Therefore the story of the Deceiver in Eden makes sense. Satan ("Enemy") has an aim: to destroy truth, by burying it in a flood of lies, leaving people confused and believing whatever "feels right," which for many is Not Good (see: MAGA). The Enemy's siren call was FREEDOM ("you will not die, you will be like God") and following that seduction away from God has produced this world. Had enough yet?
Trump and Satan are quite similar. Carlson's comment about a "demonic force" is the one thing he had right.
Hopeless? No, but that's why we have the Bible, which is best discussed elsewhere than this newsletter. When God's time comes, "the meek will inherit the earth" and Satan will be gone. We cannot do that: only the Creator is strong enough.
Do you seriously think that a country that spends more on defense than China, Russia, India, UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea combined is going to make a serious effort to curb physical or psychological violence? Narcissists don’t care who they destroy, including their own friends and family.
It’s going to take a MAJOR movement to change course.
There are so many ways to look at Dr Lee’s argument about ethics and legality. Would we fail to throw a bucket of water on a fire and leave it to burn? That’s basically what Trump did at the beginning of the pandemic. Even knowing how contagious and severe it was, they refused to give Governors life support machines for the hospitals.
That last paragraph is profound, true, and sure to be shot down with extreme prejudice. If enacted, it would immediately be twisted to use in an attack on all religion, since some regard faith in anything higher than man as dangerous superstition. Not without reason, since religion has many forms that indeed do psychological damage. But truth will be attacked along with it.
I believe God exists, but evil also exists, and the explanation I find persuasive is that God gives free will to both us and those out there with Him. Therefore the story of the Deceiver in Eden makes sense. Satan ("Enemy") has an aim: to destroy truth, by burying it in a flood of lies, leaving people confused and believing whatever "feels right," which for many is Not Good (see: MAGA). The Enemy's siren call was FREEDOM ("you will not die, you will be like God") and following that seduction away from God has produced this world. Had enough yet?
Trump and Satan are quite similar. Carlson's comment about a "demonic force" is the one thing he had right.
Hopeless? No, but that's why we have the Bible, which is best discussed elsewhere than this newsletter. When God's time comes, "the meek will inherit the earth" and Satan will be gone. We cannot do that: only the Creator is strong enough.