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"The senselessness to a lot of the evil acts was a constant stabbing pain to them...But it would be nice to know enough to prevent. . . among other things"

Cold-blooded murder is, by definition, a senseless crime. Sensible people can never hope to understand the why; we're incapable of conceiving such soulless viciousness.

We can understand, however, that there are such people in the world and deal with them accordingly. Preferably, via removal from the gene pool.

Maybe it is my psych background. Maybe it is the refiner's fires/long dark nights of the soul I've been sieved through more times than I'd like to remember.

But I can understand such despair . . . which tends to be the start--despair, bitterness, resentment. Then satan gets a deep foothold and the person seeks to strike out in vengeance over the perceived causes or even just the scape goats they somehow connect to their despair.

That's one reason I try to be super cautious about vengeance. The line can get very thin between "us & them."

It is not that they are monsters and we are not. It is an issue of degree.

All the research on the Nazi criminals persistently drove home the truth that they are we and we are they.

As the author if a favorite psych book put it in an intro once (blocking on his name at present), It's one thing if the monsters are out there. Even if they are terrible and more than one--we can gangup on them and eventually rid ourselves of them. But if the monster is within us all. That's a more troublesome problem.

God says, since Adam, the monster is in us all. And if we feed him; give vent to him; coddle him; glory in him; do anything but take him to The Cross and crucify him--then we die and often others around us die--whether in bits or wholesale.

I believe our era will see, as the Bible predicts, evil on an unprecedented scale. And the senselessness will be off the scale. It will be as though the most viscious demons of hell have been let loose on the surface for an extended mayhem holiday of destruction and cruelty of unheard of, unimagined proportions. Men's hearts will truly fail them for fear.

God will raise up a standard against such. And He DOES HAVE a "terrrible swift Sword" and it is indeed the Word of God manifested in a diversity of ways.

I believe we will see children younger than 6 and certainly youths of 8-12 doing exploits that would honor generals in coming months and years. . . because their steadfast focus is in The King of Kings and He is Their Champion, Supreme General and Rear Guard.

I think it will be a bit like a more righteous version of who--Shirley Temple--confronting a mass of Hell's Angels and leaving them all dead at each other's hands.

It's possible to understand. But I agree, at some point, there is no point to bothering about understanding. Swat the insects and flush them.

But I still believe we need to be cautious about not contaminating ourselves with their attitudes in the process of getting rid of them.