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Krisles

Thanks for your helpful comment.  But if even you do not see what I am trying to do here,  then I have more work to do.  The most important point of this post was this:

I say that the time to defeat and disable predatory evil is NOW,  always NOW,  never some vague time in the future,  because predatory evil is destroying its victims NOW,  always NOW.  What do you say?

Which was even in bold letters to emphasize it's importance.

My writings are, first and foremost, in the category of moral philosophy, not religion.  I have made it quite clear in my posts that justice is equally as important as love,  but no one seems to be getting that.  The popular culture and the orthodox Christian religion have collaborated to become quite comfortable with promoting  "LOVE",  and suppressing "JUSTICE".  But both are equally important,  and one cannot survive without the other. 

Orthodox Christians defer any enforcement of justice to God,  at some future time,  who really cares when,  as long as we don't have to do anything about it NOW.  Because it is really inconvenient to trouble yourself,  or perhaps risk your life,  to save the lives of others who are being destroyed by predatory evil.  The unwillingness to face this issue head-on and deal with it,  has been the failing of civilization for pretty much,  well,  forever.

So should we defer to God,  and wait on him to bring justice to the world, next year,  next decade,  next century,  next millenium.....  or should we individual folks risk our convenience and comfort,  to work for justice NOW??  I think God is waiting on us,  instead of the other way around.....

 

 

posted by GoldenMean on March 22, 2016 at 1:41 AM | link to this | reply

Golden

First of all, I saw your comment to Naut about long posts...and you also made one on my post along similar lines.  Thank you for the kind words and, yes, there is a club of us who do write long posts.  I've done it for 10 years and for all that time had to occasionally deal with a comment about the length.  But, I have to write what I write for the reasons of my own....I'm certainly not writing the stuff I do for publication or I would pay more heed to the complaints....perhaps!LOL!  I, of course, appreciate that they are trying to get me more readers...I do appreciate the intent.  However, my attitude has been folks can read or not...that is entirely their decision.  I've been wordy my whole life, it's just how I express myself (as you can see by this comment!).  Of course, I'm not trying to "teach" folks anything....other than an occasional shared recipe!

This was very interesting, but I did find myself asking all the way through, "Why is he going through this exercise?"  And then, at the very end, in the shortest paragraph (I think) in the whole piece...you very succinctly told us why you wrote it:to find out why predatory evil is so powerful and difficult to defeat,  diminish or disable,  even with the power of God against it.  If I had anything to offer to you that would probably help assure you more readers, it is the suggestion that you start your posts like this by explaining why you are writing it, what you goal is in this thorough exploration that you share.  As it is, I would imagine a lot of folks just open it and go, "whoa"....  Whereas, if they could read immediately what your purpose in writing is, I think that is a "hook"  for more interest by those similarly confused or curious.  JMHO

posted by Krisles on March 21, 2016 at 8:25 PM | link to this | reply