When I was a young boy, the world seemed to be a much simpler place that made a lot more sense to me. There were good people and there were bad people who did evil things. It was up to the good people to stand up for, and when necessary, protect the innocent.
This notion of right and wrong, good and evil, was further instilled in me during my years in the Boy Scouts, back when the scout oath still meant something. “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” Where have those scouts gone today?
Even the friends I hung out with, the movies we watched, and the books I read reinforced the notion of doing the right thing. Louis L’Amour’s westerns constantly reiterated what a real man was and that at the end of the day, you darn well better be able to look at the man in the mirror and what you have said and done.
Honor wasn’t simply a through-away sentimentality, a tag line in a cheesy martial arts movie, or some self-important sense of pride that is easily injured by others. My parents taught me that it meant something and that life would not necessarily be easier to live with honor, but that it sure helped you fall asleep easier when the night came.
I long for those days when right and wrong were easily identifiable and pretty much universally accepted. In some ways those days seem like a distant foggy memory.
Today we have some people that cheer and celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a good, kind Christian man because of his politics. They falsely attribute racism and authoritarianism to him in order to justify their ghoulish behavior. They become far more upset about Jimmy Kimmel losing his job than the assassination of the butt of his sick “joke”.
Granted, the government has NO right to curb even such hateful speech, but it is the mentality of those evil people that support the assassination and the supportive comments made that is my point here.
There are folks that decry the rounding up of CRIMINAL illegal aliens, but seemingly have no sympathy for those same criminals’ victims.
Iryna Zarutska gets stabbed repeatedly on a train and people come out in support of the mentally ill person that perpetrated such evil on this innocent girl.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot by Luigi Mangione because of perceived injustices in the healthcare industry. Many evil people support Mangione for this killing and see him as a type of leftist martyr for the cause.
The murder of George Floyd was horrific, but the response of millions of people was to destroy, burn, loot, and even kill others because of this – even destroying livelihoods and taking lives of other people of color they were purportedly championing by this rioting.
And then we have the indoctrinated and ignorant who support the thoroughly evil Iranian puppets of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the “Palestinians”. These are the people that voted for a terrorist regime to govern them. These are the people that see Jews as less than human. These are the people that raped, tortured, and murdered Jews for decades. Hamas still holds scores of hostages taken nearly two years ago in their brazen and horrific attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023.
And what does the world do this week? Now over 150 countries have recognized “Palestine” as an independent nation. This includes supposed stalwarts of western civilization and human rights such as France, Belgium, Canada, the U.K. and Australia. I guess terrorism pays after all.
It doesn’t seem to matter that Israel forcibly removed all Jews from Gaza and allowed the “Palestinians” to self-govern. It doesn’t matter that every single time a peace accord has been proposed over the decades, without fail it is the “Palestinians” that have rejected it. They don’t want peace. They want the land from the river to the sea to be Judenrein. Without Jews. Ironically, they want the very genocide of Jews they falsely claim that Israel is perpetrating against them. The people that support this are tools of evil.
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20
The good thing is that the world is starting to see a revival of goodness, of repentance and turning to God. Indeed I have atheists friends of good conscience that are saying no more! No longer are there as many people willing to stand by in the face of evil being said and done. No more are there as many people that will allow the innocent to be harmed. The demonic and ghoulish behavior as I have laid out in this post has finally reached its crescendo. It is now incumbent for all people of good moral conscience to stand up and call evil for what it is, unabashedly and without fear.
It deeply gladdens my heart to see this rebirth of goodness and resistance to those that would do evil. I am hoping this revival of trust in the Lord and his goodness will usher in a new generation – for many generations. I hope my grandkids will be able to experience a childhood like I once knew. A childhood where we knew right from wrong and good from evil and weren’t afraid to stand for good.
2 comments:
Can you give specific examples of people who supported Iryna Zarutska's killer? I would actually be interested to know more about this.
The main issue a lot of people have with the current wave of arrests of illegal aliens is that it is being done without due process and ignores the relevant laws. Under these conditions, there is no way of knowing whether the specific individuals detained are actually violent criminals or not, or even whether they are illegal aliens or not. In some cases the conditions under which people are being held are so inhumane that they are probably illegal, and detaining people for long periods without charges, and deporting them without a trial, are not the actions of a moral government. Deportations of illegals were carried out at a higher rate under Obama than under Trump, but there was no such widespread opposition to it (even though Democrats commonly attack actions by Democratic politicians they disapprove of), because he did it consistently with the law and due process.
In some ways I agree with you about the turn away from evil. Most mainstream Democratic politicians condemned the Kirk assassination, and many prominent Republicans condemned the deplatforming of Kimmel, which shows that they are putting objective good above ideological polarization. But in some areas things are getting worse. The flood of anti-Semitic incidents and actions unleashed after October 7 continues unabated and seems to be intensifying.
I don't know how old you are, but it's likely that the level of violent crime was actually higher during the period of your childhood than it is now. Despite the degeneration of some urban cores, the overall rate of crime in the US is at a historic low. Crime has generally trended downward throughout US history except for a moderate rise between the 1960s and the 1990s, after which it started dropping again.
I would also question whether people's grasp of good and evil today is really worse than in the past. There were also people who cheered the assassinations of Martin Luther King and president Lincoln at the time. Millions of people during the early history of the country believed slavery was morally acceptable. Atrocities against Indians which would be unthinkable today were routine. The moral confusions and blind spots of our own time seem to me to be much less bad than those things.
Infidel, let me clarify, sir. Perhaps “support” of the criminal that murdered Iryna Zarutska is not the best choice of words; however, there were way too many people that tried to mitigate the viciousness of the murder and even shift blame on the victim. There were numerous unsympathetic comments in social media saying that Iryna should have had better situational awareness. Perhaps so, but that doesn’t mean that she deserved what happened.
Three or four other individuals witnessed the whole thing and not only did they do or say nothing at the time, but they simply walked by and did not render help after the murderer left the train.
The mayor of Charlotte chastised us and said not to politicize this heinous crime, and then she politicized this by saying that arresting people would not solve the problem. Had Decarlos Brown been arrested for his past 14 felonies, it would’ve solved the problem. The mayor said, “We can’t demonize the homelessness.” If demonizing the homelessness means that they’re not going to slit somebody’s throat, I will prefer that Iryna be alive and I will demonize Mr. Decarlos Brown for having 14 felonies.
That brings us to the incompetent and morally obtuse magistrate, Teresa Stokes. She allowed Brown, with 14 felonies, who was currently charged of another felony of misusing the 911 system, to remain free. That in itself may not have been an existential crime, but given his record of violence, why didn’t she keep him in jail? Why wasn’t there an indictment and a trial and conviction?
So, you had a judge without a legal degree who would not pass the bar, had not taken the bar, letting out a career felon and sentencing him to alternate treatments, of which, in the past, she’s had a financial interest. Perhaps that doesn’t amount to full-throated support of the murderer, but it sure as hell is downplaying his crime at the expense of an innocent victim, sir.
Sorry for the tone, Infidel, but that incident really has me upset, as that could have just as easily been my wife, daughter, or granddaughter.
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