ATTENTION. DUE TO A SCALE BACK IN COVERAGE, THE MORAL ARC OF THE UNIVERSE NO LONGER BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
-- Unsong
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
-- John 16:32-33
Is the Arc still bending toward justice? Possibly, I hope so -- but if not, it really is just an inconvenience. Not that it doesn't matter. We should work for justice, hope for justice, pray for justice -- just as we do for health and long life for ourselves and those we love. But we should also recognize that living on earth for a really long time was never really the point, that no one's ever going to live all that long no matter what we do, and that in the end we must suffer death before we can transcend it. And the same is true of injustice. "Resist not evil" -- said in the same spirit as "Don't be afraid to die."
2 comments:
Resist not evil is true; but too many take it to mean that it means we do not need to discern evil.
But how could we choose Not to resist evil, if we didn't first know it for what it was?
Certainly discerning good and evil is of the utmost importance.
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