Originally posted by Rupert Of course the devil is real! You look around at the world we live in and tell me that what you see is just Ratlady "Backward Thinking".....then tell me where you find the "Forward Thinking" that she apparently thinks will replace Evil?
God says both the Devil and Evil are real....if you don't believe in God...you will have to wait a while before you find out for sure....and you surely will. There are many people full of the devil......some right here ranting in favor of practices God has deemed evil.....but others just see as "Backward Thinking", while they wallow in their own perverted lifestyles.....
Regards!
That's not a *definition,* Rupert. That's an *accusation.* Premised, in fact, on something *you* say I say which is not true.
We've done that discussion over and over, though.
People 'getting backwards' from what their goodness intends is not the same as this 'backward thinking' with which you claim I dismiss what you simply label as 'evil' ...then of course extend this label to people who have harmed no one.
I assure you, I've literally *forgotten* more about 'fighting evil' than you can probably imagine.
Pointing and saying 'Evil!' does not bring more goodness. Only more blindness and suffering.
A small act of hope is better than a thousand swings at shadows. Often there's *people* in those shadows, and behind those masks you place on them.
I told you of the story of Hercules/Herakles? How his famous labors began? What he was atoning for was what he did when someone confuddled his senses and reason, put 'demonic' masks on innocents, (his own children) and while he was in his delerium, directing him to slaughter them. As 'evil.'
This is an important lesson for anyone who will point and say 'Evil.'
'Evil to him who sees evil.'
Let's be careful out there.
And, it's not that I 'don't believe in 'God,' Rupert. I could easily apply Yucatan's definition to Her. Do I believe 'He' has anything in particular to do with your accusations and biases?
Can't say I think so, no. All I see of *that* "God" is... You.
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