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Monday, 15 March 2010
What is Evil? Is it an incarnate being? A tangible force? A way of life? Evil is all of these things and more. It may begin as an intangible being that influences its surroundings. Say we have two children, one has a piece of candy, and the other does not. The child without the candy notices the candy and desires his own. Evil may then suggest that having this candy is of paramount importance, and so the desire may raise to a heightened state. Further influence may create such a strong desire in the child that he considers stealing the candy. First the child tries clandestine measures, as it is natural to feel shame taking something that does not belong to oneself. In the process, the child's methods were clubsy and he is found out immediately by the child with the candy, who protests the act. Now the candyless child grows angry and violent, choosing to strike the child with the candy and while that child is distracted with pain, seizes the candy by force with threat of a follow up act of violence. It is easy to see the evolution of evil. One can identify the evil at work in each turn of events in the short tale above, but can one identify the origin of the evil? The origin of the evil lies in the child who had candy and knowing the other child did not, refused to share it.
Posted by Fr Abbot Kenneth L. Hasty, S.O.S.
at 12:11 PM EDT
Updated: Monday, 15 March 2010 12:33 PM EDT
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