These past few days thousands of workers for one of the communication giants have been on strike. You most likely saw some of them with their red shirts and picket signs standing in front of one of their work places. I certainly can understand the need for unity and solidarity when negotiating with a giant organization. What I don’t understand is one of the strikers was wearing a button with the company logo above the word “Evil.” “Evil” is a very harsh word and I wondered now that the strike is over, how can that person continue to work for an organization that is evil? Would that not mean that he too is evil by using his talents to foster the health of that evil organization? Should he not use his gifts to totally stamp out evil or does something cease to be evil once we get from it what WE want? Then who is the evil one?
All of my life I have been educated to think that Satan is evil. I certainly don’t want to be on his team. Therefore, when I tell a lie, it really isn’t evil, it’s just a little white lie. I haven’t really participated in his campaign to overthrow God’s Kingdom or have I? When I feed my lower nature am I not at least a private in his army? At least I’m not a captain or a general. Those positions are for others I know but will not identify here.
It seems so easy to disparage others and excuse ourselves. I usually come up with some very good excuses for my misdeeds but rarely want to give others the benefit of the doubt. They are just plainly evil! Alas, I need a heart transplant
Written by Roger Bothwell on August 23, 2011
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