A couple of posts ago, I lamented the deep well of evil that seems to reside inside every human heart. The well that is so easily tapped. The source from which we are able and more than willing to broadcast evil to every corner of the world we come in contact with.
One of the theoretical building blocks of many human religions, certainly of Christianity, since I heard it many times when we were in that world, is that humans have an inborn yearning for God. I've heard it said that we're born with a god-shaped hole in our hearts.
Maybe that's true. But I think it's more likely that mankind has spent a tremendous amount of time, brain power, concentration and energy searching for someone or something to scrape our shortcomings on to. This evil that we can't seem to control, that does such grievous damage when we allow it to escape and fester in the world...that can't possibly come from us! So we project it on to an outside source, and create a celestial custodian whose job it is to clean up the disasters our evil leaves behind. And when it doesn't, we whine and cry and grovel and curse. Instead of getting a clue that the disaster comes from US and it's OUR job to clean it up. And perhaps to take enough control of our weak selves that we keep the disasters from occurring in the first place.
The state of our country and the world at large has me indulging in a great deal of thought about where evil comes from, what it does, and whose job it is to deal with it...something we had all better figure out soon, or the consequences are going to be cataclysmic.
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