What is Evil?
I am confident that many great
people have tried to answer this enigmatic question over the centuries. Before
I try to explain evil, perhaps we should try to understand “hate”. In the
Animal Kingdom, hate is a non-existent survival mechanism. In that realm, hate has given absolute quarter to instinct. Animals only kill to eat
or to protect territory. That is, they kill “to be” or to “be part of” their representative
speck of creation. So did God engineer Mankind with or without hate?
Mother Nature provides the
resource for all life to interact with one another – either in harmonious symbiosis
or in a non-synergistic relationship with one another. It is in the “independence
factor” that a dilemma is created for humans. What is external to our comfort
level antagonizes our “hate gene”. We enact hate rather than ignite instinct.
When one tries to define evil or
hate, their respective descriptions become the mutating eccentricities of
popular thought and culture. As thought evolves, so too does our understanding of hate and
evil. Thought is the inquisitive invention of evolving curiosity, and its
ultimate prize is knowledge.
My personal belief is that “hate”
was implanted in humans by God. He did so to provide us a visible consequence
to our gift of “free will”. Hate in humans is God’s pressure valve. No matter
how we view hate, it only matters when the pressure valve is about to burst.
That is the point in which hate subverts God.
The D-evil is the colloquial
wrench that attempts to open the valve, ad infinitum, by priming and
influencing our free will.
Thank you,
Joseph Pede
Joseph Pede
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