How to Deal with Zealots and Evildoers
A MySpace friend asked me the following question which I answer below.
“This phrase taken from your blog The Golden Compass - A Waste of Mind you [Michael Skowronski] wrote, “They feel the need to seek vengeance upon those who make life painful and difficult, they think punishing the bad guys will make the world a better place…” This of course written in response to what I presume can only be zealots immensely if not somewhat foolishly devoted to a cause.
“My question I would suppose is what defines their nature? What is it that drives them to reach such a point?
“I believe in the good of all people down to the person and I understand and know that they all mean well. I want to believe that they feel so devoted to the overall good of the world that they have defined boundaries, rightly or wrongly, of who or what they believe are standing in the way of global conscious happiness. In that sense it would make them appear to be good.
“But then is their action or response therefore bad?…Of course in the sense of good and bad purely.
“Honestly, it feels like shades of grey in this area. It almost seems like misguided energy, determined to go one way but becomes displaced in the process. While I sincerely disbelieve that in “enemies” I do however believe in people who fervently disagree with a viewpoint, whether widely accepted or contested. I know that thoughts heavily influence anything when circulated, either by word, pen, or action.
“Therefore if a group of people esteem a certain thought or thoughts that no longer seem to serve the evolution of our well being and world would it truly be disadvantageous to take up a zealot state of mind as some have?
“I could be a person of peace, but sometimes to remain as such one would occasionally have to be a person of war.
“I feel cloudy on this as it has been on my mind as of late. And since I’m relatively aware of many people’s points of view I sometimes feel double-minded about certain issues. If for no other reason than the fact that I understand them all so compassionately.
“And some of it is astral projected off of my conscience I confess because I have read, really read with a certain intensity; the works of Timothy Freake and Peter Gandy on the origins of Christianity. The results were astounding and liberating, with sufficient, plausible evidence to support their claim. Now in response to my sexual orientation, it was like a dead weight was lifted off my shoulders. However it has only added fire to the triste animosity I’ve occasionally borne against today’s Christianity. The deal of mistruths innocently or deliberately preached; has hurt deeply me for years. I’d be lying if I did not say that having a enormous cannon pointed right back their direction would somehow satisfy me, even if temporarily. Maybe a zealot lies dormant inside of me… I realize that this may not be my true nature speaking, and I may still be healing slowly even as I have already healed through the sense of time; but I felt it apt to address this.
“Sadly, a religion meant to give the greatest peace has inspire and produced the worst of all atrocities the world’s ever come across in history past and present.”
As for zealots I would say if you use that label you would have to label the majority of humanity with it. Just look at the sales figures from movies with a largely violent content. Look at the viewer ratings…quite high, probably the highest market segment. This says that most of humanity sees life this way, and is using the entertainment to explore the ideas of violence and punishment. But exploring these ideas as people do just reinforces the ideas and they will come out in their own physical actions when stress occurs. Look at the way US citizens respond to anger, road rage, guns, and supporting wars. In India where such movies are less popular these people are more prone to work out their differences than fight.
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March 29th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
If we took the number of lives lost in all actions undertaken in the name of Christ (for The Golden Compass is considered a particularly anti-Christian work (and subtracted from that the losses in battles fought against Mongol & Saracen invasions,) the number would pale before the number of deaths suffered by Christians from direct persecution from the days of the Apostles to this very hour. Yes, we have had our mad popes and reformers, but the largest relief organisation is named for the sacrifice of Christ for our sins, and the majority of hospitals in the world today were founded on Gospel principles rather than greed. How they’re run today may be a different story, but even then C.S. Lewis said said something to the effect that the thing of greatest potential for good can be perverted for the greatest evil. Christian charity, perverted, became Communism, etc. The very fact these evils exist, then, is cause to consider the Good!
Robert Easter’s last blog post..Invisible Sidewalks?
March 31st, 2008 at 9:34 am
i am so touched by the narration and the atrrocities sowed by organised church on mankind, as narrated in the post..Millions of people have been killed in the name of religion and God, in the past, and still massacres are stage managed by them. Murder, terrorism, embezzlement, drug running, and major continuing swindling of incredible sums of money, manipulations of politics in America, Italy, south America,and Europe.It isa startling study. All in the name of that poor carpenter who wanted to save mankind from annihilation. Does man need religion? Let him live peacefully without it!