Evil individuals hate those who fight them.
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It’s only the normal “human condition” to see this phenomenon when the people who are making the judgements are not the ones attacked or directly threatened by the evil.
It’s a social state where people who are observing a regular condition of peace or at least order, and they are benefiting from it, or at least feel personally safe in it, get very agitated by visible aggression. You can see this a lot with individuals, when the person who instigates and provokes someone into a reaction is not corrected, even if their provocation is violent. It is the one who reacts or retaliates who is almost always punished.
Why?
Usually it is because the provocations went unnoticed or were ignored.
John 15:18-25
King James Version
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
I had my greatest revelation of evil and bigotry in the days after the terrorist attacks on Oct 7, a woman that I worked with said that Israel had brought this on themselves, and she didn’t think Israel should be ALLOWED to retaliate against Hamas.This woman has proudly professed her Catholic faith, and her support of ALL things for democrats. I realized then that being a Jew hating, democrat, Catholic was a cancer in the Catholic faith. My other Catholic workers had a look of disbelief on their faces. I also realized that many people that profess their Christian faith are just as evil, bigoted, and hateful towards Jews, and all of them are democrats, or closet democrats. It has changed my whole prospective on how people profess their Christianity and how they think and conduct themselves. I am Apostolic Pentecost and have seen and heard from various people and various Christian faiths who profess their Christianity but have a deep hatred of the Jewish people, all of them have been democrats. I’m dumbfounded over their total support of democrats and even showing them proof of the democrats being anti-Christian and anti-Jew, it doesn’t change their support of democrats.
Fallen man would rather beleive the lie than the truth because the lie doesn’t condemn their sin
Very astute observation. It is a sign of our moral decay and departure from God.
The consequences are severe, as we are witnessing.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
1 Corinthians 6:9
“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?…”
Yes, the consequences are very severe.
I have heard that it’s easier to lie to people than it is to convince them they have been lied to. Bonhoeffer, Cipolla and Dunning/Kruger are insightful in understanding this phenomenon. It’s basically ego and stupidity that makes people fact resistant.
http://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a
lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for
violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog
must not, cannot and will not ever harm the sheep. Any
sheepdog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb
will be punished and removed. The world cannot work
any other way, at least not in a representative democracy
or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant
reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would
prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them
traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in
camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would
much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray
paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”
Currently, the only sin is to call sin, a sin.