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Sometime I consider the notion that is a ‘design flaw’ but then I refocus on the fundamental Truth. We are all partaking of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

If we are unable to understand just what Evil truly is, and what can result from it, the the concept of Good is pretty much meaningless.

Exactly. That is an excellent observation. Great post. (You really made me think about his early in the morning.)

I believe that is a fundamental difference between Us and Them (deliberately capitalized)

WE (Conservatives and true Christians) believe that fundamental evil exists, it is in our nature, and we must be vigilant in both ourselves and others, and we will always have to fight against it to keep from being overpowered by it.

THEY believe that humans are perfectible, that any evil that exists is caused by us (via ignorance, poverty, disease, called PID) and that evil can be socially engineered out of us (in this case, as Conservatives, it may have been appropriate there to deliberately capitalize "US") in their futile journey to reach their "Utopia". In other words, evil doesn't exist. It is only caused by us, and it can be eradicated. This ignorance, that we are perfectible, that innate evil doesn't exist, that it can be socially engineered out, and that Utopia is reachable, makes them extremely dangerous.

Fatally dangerous to all of us and our liberty.

Because as much as we believe in God and all that goes with it, they believe (with even more intense religious zealotry) that Government is the answer. While we may appeal to God, they appeal to government and do all they can to lay their hands on the levers of power to become "God".

That is Leftism.

As Whittaker Chambers said in his famous work "Witness", in describing the fight between Communism (Leftism) and our concepts of God and Freedom:

"It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.

It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world.

It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe

Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God."

And that passage entirely defines Leftists if you replace "Communism" and "Communists" with "Leftism" and "Leftists".

It is why Leftism, as the core of the Democrat Party ideology, is wholly incompatible with Freedom.

It is also why I have long viewed Leftists and the Democrat party as Domestic Enemies of this Republic.

I am certain your reference to “The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil” is what made that Whittaker Chambers quote bubble to the top of my mind...

Thank you.