bb: And yet it seems we cannot press too far in that direction, for two reasons.
Spirited: While I agree, I also believe that there is a time for every season under the sun, which in this instance means that there comes a time for no longer casting pearls before swine for the reason that what ails the swine is spiritual. He is a beast because his soul is turned in upon itself.
Though we can and must point him to the Way, and we can even exhaust ourselves in the effort to do so, we cannot save him for it is not within our power to do so.
The term “human tools” is from CS Lewis’ masterpiece, “That Hideous Strength.” Some examples of human tools are Karl Marx, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino...High Priest of the Temple of Set. As Lewis observed: When the Devil is done with his (human) tools he destroys them.
being a bit contrary — is it fair to call Marx in that lot. At the end he was a philosopher and a lot of what we consider communism isn’t pure communism (which is probably best described in the Kibbutz system in Israel) — yes, Marx’s followers were undoubtedly evil, but on reading Das Kapital, it came across as an economic treatise, with flaws, but not a madman’s work like Mein Kampf.