The fight against evil (PROFOUND & POWERFUL

(EXCERPT)What is a common example of disbelief in evil? A person who calls terrorists "freedom fighters" is giving away the fact that he does not believe they are evil. If the random murder of civilians by zealous fanatics is not evil, then nothing is evil. Therefore, it is a fair deduction that many of those who do not believe the terrorists are evil also do not believe in the existence of evil.

Those who deny the existence of evil are often outraged when good men give evil a name and fight against it. This outrage sometimes prompts them to take the side of evil. Their wish to vindicate their stand that evil does not exist naturally leads them to become apologists and defenders of evil.

The term "freedom fighters" confers praise to evil. The defense of evil can be very close to the admiration of evil. Evil is seductive precisely because it is secretly admired by deeply-buried chambers of darkness in the human heart. Therefore, it is very difficult to defend evil without slipping into the veiled admiration of evil. This is why the ACLU has slipped from defending evil clients because they have constitutional rights, to having solidarity with miscreants and enthusiasm in their advocacy of evil causes.

"The Abolition of Man" by Lewis is a fairly short book and a good read. It starts off with the mundane pedagogical question of teaching texts, and how to recognize good literature. This cannot be answered without first examining the question of how you train a student emotionally, that is, how to train the emotions to support man's reason against the demands of self (desire.) As he proceeds, he expands his subject to examine the question of the deliberate attempt of modern social planners to replace existing morality with a new morality, and in doing this, to attempt a remake of the nature of society itself.

Lewis contends that these planners are wrong, that you may improve upon existing morals, but you cannot truly alter them. Modern thought rather obscures morality and direct us rather to follow our desire rather than reason, with predictable destructive consequences. The book ends with an examination of the results of this planning, and the way in which the planners will see the futility of their actions, their contempt for the subjects of their planning and their use of them without regard for happiness.

Again, this is a excellent book written by informed and intelligent man who was in a good position to see in his time and society the processes of modern social revolution destroying the best aspects of western society and thought. We, of course, see the outcomes which he forsaw.

"Power of the pen, mightier than the sword."

It is indeed!! What is really detrimential to our nation is the fact that too many Americans fail to understand that most of what they read in our papers and see on television is the product of only a handful of giant corporations and that The War on Terror and the attacks on "religion" in America are on-going examples of the dishonest and blatantly incendiary "reporting" by agenda driven representatives of these mega-corporations' ~ reporting specifically intended to undermine national and international confidence in President Bush and his administration and to undermine the moral foundation of this "one nation under God".

Yet, under the Clinton Administration (and despite laws specifically designed to prevent it) merger after merger took place within the media industry until finally, by the end of the millennium, a handful of mega-corporations totally controlled the flow of news, information and entertainment within this country ~
this includes books, magazines, television, newspapers, movies, music, internet access, etc.,etc.

The actual number of corporations dominating most of every mass medium dropped, under clinton's administration, from from 23 media firms to 6 mega-media corporations by the Spring of 2000!

But even this number is deceiving ~ the power and influence of these mega-conglomerates is understated by counting them as 'six.' For, in reality, these six are actually intertwined: they own stock in each other, they cooperate in joint media ventures, and among themselves they divide profits from some of the most widely viewed programs on television, cable and movies.

As foreseen by the Supreme Court in 1945, this consolidation of power and control has been to the detriment of us all as the media role has shifted from ensuring democracy to undermining the function of true democracy

Under this condensed, goal oriented management, our nation's "Guardians Of The Peoples Right to Know" have mutated into little more than "information brokers" and "opinion shapers" who present very specific information in a manner which meets a very specific agenda. Shielded behind the cloak of 'journalism' and without regard for truth, accuracy, or impartiality, a countless variety of sources now continually present us with carefully manufactured versions of world events. Sadly, most citizens are completely unaware that 'news' stories repeated by numerous, and seemingly 'different' sources are actually a single, unencumbered voice.

A review of the outrageously provocative "coverage" of Hurricane Katrina and NOLA serves to underscore the extent to which the "MSM" has joined forces with the radical left in an all out effort to sow hatred, spread racial fears and use this manufactured discontent to overthrow a standing president. Such a review clearly demonstrates that the media is not merely complaisant in this assault on America and the presidency of George W. Bush but that they, in fact, active participants!

The above Joseph Pulitzer quote appears on an inscribed plaque visible to all upon enter the halls of the Columbia School of Journalism.

[ This article reminds me of a recent discussion... ]

I was not comfortable with using the word 'evil' in association with terrorism from day one.. Walk out your front door and there is evil all around you.. Might even be a little or a lot within your gates.. Words are important.. thats the wrong word I believe.. actually it diverts attention from what terrorism really is.. "mass murder".. even "selective and random murder".. mayhem and anarchy..

Democracy which is Mob Rule is rule by mobsters.. Killing terrorists to produce democracy is fraught with error.. and is cognitive dissonance.. Words are important.. Most words used to explain the current terrorism, I've heard, don't get close to what evil is.. I think more evil than terrorism is democracy.. which produces socialism, which is slavery of the people by government.. Terrorism is performed by gangs as is democracy.. Democracy vs. Terrorism is gang warfare for territory.. Little wonder the socialists of this world and terrorists are loosely united..(i.e. american democrats)..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx

The oldest trick in the book.

Obviously, it's been working on human kind since the beginning of time.

I hope for some of their sakes, these "defenders of evil" dummy up and wake up to reality. That said, I'm not confident it'll happen.

I was not comfortable with the use of the words "national tragedy" from day one. 9-11 was a disaster - a man-made disaster as opposed to Hurricane Katrina's (which was worse). A natural disaster is nobody's fault. An UNNATURAL DISASTER is what 911 should have been called. The whole idea of folding FEMA under the "department of homeland security" is an admission that "homeland security" is involved in the prevention of both natural and unnatural disasters.

911 was an unnatural disaster because radical islam is an unnatural act. Unnatural is defined in this context as originating from the supernatural - in the case of 911 - from the devil in man, or "evil".

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