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Your teachings here are similar to other current "unity" doctrines I am following. I did not know that Sufis subscribed to this "all is One" belief. I can see the good intentions in it. But your quote from Rumi 2 or 3 posts ago is highly disturbing to me. You wrote "Rumi was right when he penned the words, "There is a field beyond right and wrong. Meet me there." Good and evil are opposite sides of the same coin. Can't have one without the other."
Sorry, but I don't want to meet anyone on that field of immorality. And I think we CAN have the good without the evil, at least in our own home and backyard.
If good and evil are opposite sides of the same coin, we need to slice the coin in half, and throw the evil half to the bottom of the ocean. Give the devil his due, so to speak, but keep him away from me.
I think we can actively support goodness and actively fight evil, and we should do both, not just throw up our hands and say that we cannot destroy evil completely, so we might as well just put up with it, or accept it as something necessary.
No!! We have a moral obligation and responsibility to come to the aid of others who are being attacked by predatory evil, anywhere and everywhere. And of course, we have the absolute right to defend ourselves to the death, when we are attacked by predatory evil ourselves.
And as far as "unity" goes, I feel no unity whatsoever with a rapist, or a serial killer, or a dictator who commits genocide. My values are opposite and alien to theirs, with no "unity" whatsoever.
Evil is indeed the opposite of good, and an opposing philosophy from goodness, with radically different values, goals and methods.
If you or I are murdered tomorrow, our voice is silenced, but the voice of our murderer speaks on, and he lives on to murder again, unpunished by God. So the huge differences in philosophy, between goodness and evil, must be continually taught and pointed out, to keep us striving toward goodness and away from evil. An extreme message of "unity" is morally distorted, and even quite dangerous.
I will pray for my enemies to turn from evil, yes, but if they attack you or me, they should be subject to our forceful opposition to terminate their evil actions.
posted by
GoldenMean
on June 12, 2018 at 1:24 PM
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