Sometimes People Aren’t Merely Misguided.
They Really Are Evil
American Thinker,
by
Allan J. Feifer
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
6/2/2024 12:39:44 PM
A difficult concept to explain to ordinary people is that some people and some ideas are unadulterated evil, not just in their implementation but in their conception. Most of us are unfamiliar with evil because we spend much time and effort staying as far away as possible. There’s also an impulse to humanize others. Many want to believe the best in people and trivialize or gloss over readily observable behaviors that might lead to seeing a person as evil. People misinterpret evil acts as separate and apart from having an evil soul.
Hitler is a perfect example of pure evil despite a superficial handful of humanizing qualities.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 6/2/2024 1:19:00 PM (No. 1729644)
The author fails to mention that Hitler had Blondi take a cyanide capsule before he did to make sure they worked. They did.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
cedar 6/2/2024 1:21:11 PM (No. 1729647)
Like Obozo who was born EVIL.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 6/2/2024 1:33:00 PM (No. 1729655)
You don't deal with evil by "out-voting" it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jollytroll 6/2/2024 1:51:25 PM (No. 1729661)
My understanding is that this was not the author's intent, but to me the true lesson from the Wizard of Oz is: Evil is not to be tolerated or constrained, but instead confronted and destroyed.
I certainly think that applies here as well.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 6/2/2024 1:58:19 PM (No. 1729663)
Every dimocrat in this country
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
synchronicity 6/2/2024 2:24:58 PM (No. 1729682)
Pilate asked Jesus "what is truth?" Jesus probably remained silent for the same reason you don't explain the punch line to a joke - if you have to explain it the other person doesn't, and won't, get it. Honest people know what is good and what is true when they are in its presence and no amount of word games changes that. Evil is a negation of the Golden Rule and doesn't make us animals it makes us lower than animals, entities capable of doing and demanding things that not even Satan in Hell has been accused of. We are at a moment in history where "evil" and "untruth" reign in the Western world. What to do? A sentence I read in a book recently points to where our likely Calvary will be: "And one must be willing to walk straight into a concentration camp just for the sake of meeting with friends." We were never told that it would be easy only what would be required - pick up your cross and follow me.
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danu 6/2/2024 5:00:50 PM (No. 1729788)
personality disorders are listed, iirc, in the diagnostic manual. but they are not mental illnesses.
they cannot be cured. these are spiritual 'diseases', it is said. their thoughts and deeds are stone evil.
and they rejoice in it. so do the shrinks...they make a fortune ''treating'' not the perpetrators, but the victims.
think: ''better put some ice on that'. ... or whollyweird, dressing up macron's thugs in parisian streets ...
in jack boots, ...lighting that shuffling slab of coprolite in gestapo red/black, or posing with a leering demon grin.
had a nightmare many years ago in san francisco wherein i was shocked to learn the Devil was a woman,
in a tailored suit. years later i realised and learnt whose face it was i saw--it was sanfrannan.
we RCC mackerel-snappers have been around much longer than most of you.
we know the prayers and understand why we still have the rites of exorcism.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/2/2024 5:32:33 PM (No. 1729798)
Like Bill Gates. He's decided to kill off billions of people because there are too many on HIS planet.
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I am done with supporting the lesser of two evils!
Give me men and women who stands for what is right, regardless of whether others join them.
Rand Paul, Clay Higgins ....I am having trouble coming up with many names.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kate318 6/2/2024 8:00:25 PM (No. 1729862)
Very good, #6. Your quotation at the end of your comment is powerful. I don’t know if I am up to that challenge.
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synchronicity 6/2/2024 11:06:35 PM (No. 1729953)
You'll be fine #10 - we will all soon be faced with collaborating of not. Your resonance with my quote means you will not be a willing collaborator and therefore will not ignore what is coming. And when that time comes we will take each other's hand and walk where Jesus would walk - in beauty and truth knowing that to do otherwise would be beneath Him and what we expect of ourselves. What is the worse that could happen - people outside the concentration camp would get mad at us, we'd be on a one way road to financial and physical ruin (as Woody Allen said "death is a great way to lower expenses") or we would have to live with ourselves if we prayed that this burden was passed onto someone else because we were afraid to look into the eyes of those we left alone to rot. I toured Dachau 50 years ago and what I experienced there has haunted me ever since - no one in those circumstances should be left alone, they desperately need to be in the presence of humans who who aren't lower than animals, those who know what evil is and can look it in the eye without flinching because even the camp guards need to be reminded of what they truly were and are and not what they became out of fear. You'll recognize me as the old man with a glint in his eye, a determination in his step and the need to hold another human's hand as we wander where even angels fear to tread (maybe that is why God made humans). Tally Ho!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 6/3/2024 5:59:07 AM (No. 1730062)
FTA: "Hitler is a perfect example of pure evil despite a superficial handful of humanizing qualities."
Obama is a perfect example of pure evil despite a superficial handful of humanizing qualities. There fixed it!
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He makes the point that the worst thing we do is tolerating evil in our midst. He's right about that.
Saying that someone is "stupid" or "misguided" or "sick" when they are actually evil is making excuses for evil rather than pointing out that it IS evil and opposing it unconditionally.