Its quite bizarre ( yes Ive finally found spell checker ) that another was blogger recently examining the war between good and evil and whether there is a winner in the long run. Which is stronger then and why is this so ? A Face Book memories post popped up last week from around 5 years ago in which I gave my theory as to which is the greater and why.
The whole idea was prompted by the scandal a few years ago regarding my childhood hero Jimmy Saville. Now here was a darling of family TV and indeed childrens TV. I watched his tea time show in which he made childrens wishes come true. This was a very well known show in the 70's and 80's He also raised MILLIONS for charity and hospitals. How could anyone like this fall from grace ? Unfortunately after his death the truth came out that he was a serious child abuser on a horrific scale. So was he good or evil ? How could and why would he be both ?
We have all heard the tales of " Damascus road " type of conversions where an evil person has undergone a dramatic conversion to devoting their time and assets to a force for good. For example Nicky Cruz the gang member from what I can recall who suddenly left his old life behind and followed the good path. Im showing my age dropping that name..lol Was it the TV evangelist Billy Graham who preached his story ? I think it was. Anyway it seems that good can totally eradicate evil in a case like this. But what about the good man who is corrupted by evil ?
When evil tempts a good man you would think it would utterly destroy the good as good can do to evil, but no, the good part carries on and lives in a strange tandem with evil. Rarely does evil destroy the good in a man utterly. Their are countless examples in the media of the outing of good mens failings but the good they are still doing suddenly gets ignored and after all how can we accept such a contradiction ? We like absolutes and no ambiguity.
So good can destroy evil totally and even where it succumbs to the seduction of evil rarely does it do so 100% . For example a child abusing Priest, does he suddenly leave the church and live out an orgy of evil destruction, no. His good works continue. You might not like it, but continue they do and thats a very important point to note. A profound one. Good can still flourish along side evil. Uncomfortably maybe, but it can. Its with these two ideas that I conclude that good is stronger than evil. Can anyone be 100 % evil ? Now that is a question !
It is good to think about these things. Very few people do. The example of Jimmy Saville is particularly interesting. I think that most people are a blend of good and evil, but we are on a scale of intensity of how far the evil overrides the good. A truly evil person is someone who has let evil override their humanity completely. That's what I would call a psychopath, or, as is more commonly known today, "narcissist." Currently my entire life is in question after being involved with someone like this, it's caused me to break down in many ways again but I am finally freeing myself.
ReplyDeleteI am Mina btw, I just changed my name to morgan.
DeleteI think you were Morgan when I first found your blog. Hope things continue to improve for you.
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