Greatest writes:
I believe that the spiritual world is in balance.
This sentence pretty much sums up a large part of my point. It is YOUR belief. One problem I see with this is this isn't the Force where the chosen one is going to restore the balance of the Force and weed out the Jedi Order. This is christianity.
The easy side off goodness or the harder side of evil.
I beg to differ. We know from historical references that people leaned toward what we perceive today as evil long before they leaned toward the good side. For example, bronze age wars more often than not brought about the destruction of entire cities and enslavement or even extinction of entire civilizations. After all, the promised land wasn't empty when the Israelites got there. Did those people just packed up and left?
Even today, we can see examples of evil being the "natural" side people would choose. I started out evil, you know. And it just happens that the most bigotted christians out there are also the most ignorant.
The natural progression then would be to climb on the evil side in order to balance.
This is Earth, not The Galactic Empire. There's no such thing as a balance between good and evil.
Why is this simple fact not understood.
It's not a simple fact. It's not a fact at all.
To do otherwise, or the opposite would make us look greedy for the good side while letting the evil side go hungry for solutions and answers from us.
If you insist, should we start enslaving our neighbors again? May I suggest we invade Canada, sack their cities, and enslave their people? Mexico is another option.
We see that good is always slightly ahead of evil on our climb.
Actually, no it's not. If there's one thing history has taught us is that evil is always one step ahead of good. Let me explain why.
The first question is why do societies generally progress toward what we would say as good? It is because each society is an entity like any other entity. Each society has the will to survive. And to survive, stability seems to be the best way to go at it. After all, how stable is your society if people can steal, rape, and murder at will? Such a society would very quickly break down and seize to exist.
But let's look at it from another angle. Why do we have laws against stealing, rape, and murder? How come we don't have laws against people spreading their wings and fly up high? And further more, how come we only come up with the law against something after it's been demonstrated that people are capable of doing it against others? The reason for all of these is that some time in the past the acts of stealing, rape, and murder have been committed and people generally agreed that they were bad. Wouldn't it be silly to have come up with laws against an act nobody does, like flapping one's arms and try to fly?
Evil, such as stealing, rape, and murder, was one step ahead of good, such as the laws against these acts.
Looking at the greater picture, the international laws agreed upon by the international community are pretty much laws against horrid acts that at one time or other were committed by someone out there. Again, we don't see a law against you flapping your arms to try to fly. We see laws against acts people actually commit.
Then should we pray for evil. In a sense yes.
There's really no need to pray for evil. If there is such a thing as balance between good and evil and that good is too heavy, religious organizations, I'm sure, will eventually do enough evil to balance out the Force... I mean this good and evil thingy like they've done in the past.
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