My feelings are much the same.
The other day I read a news report about some asteroid that scientists say has a chance of hitting the Earth a few years from now and wiping us all out. So help me, the first thing I thought was “good”. Despite Bach, German pancakes, and the moon landings, the human race is in many ways a blight on the universe.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m part of the problem. I’m a sinner just like everybody else. Even so, some sins are (by God’s Grace) completely beyond me. Even at my worst, there are certain things that I could never do — not because I’m a saint, but because I find them grotesque, sickening, and contrary to life. And it isn’t just me; people around the world and from every faith or none find these things horrifying. No matter what culture a person might be from, there are certain acts that disgust everybody. (I’ll spare you the details; I’m sure everybody can think of the kind of things I mean here.) To commit these sins requires a special kind of cooperation with evil — the kind Judas Iscariot practiced. To perform these acts is to willfully negate one’s humanity at its root level. It is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Most people sin because they are weak and selfish, but some people sin because they actively want to do evil. I think people who hurt children are such people.
May God protect the innocent of the world, and give the rest of us the courage to fight those who prey upon them.
What a magnificent post. So very true. All we can do is pray. As we always say...some people are sick with mental problems. Others are just plain mean by choice. They live with the devil inside them every single day and they relish the fact they do. They are evil...add a d and you get devil. They go hand in hand. Both relish in the suffering of others but children? That I cannot even think about. They will pay. I wish we could see it but...they WILL pay.
Re: Post #65, Well put! Thanks for your insight.
{Reminds me of “People of the Lie” by M. Scott Peck.}