Hope and Evil

By Freedom Feed On January 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you found your blood
running cold, if you felt helpless as you watched the reports of last weeks
Arizona shootings – If you found yourself lost in despair – If you were
terrified at the evil in the eyes of Jared Loughner there is hope…. Indeed, and
ironically, more hope than if you felt none of this.

You see, if you spirit
leads you to admit that an absolute wrong is in fact real and has been
committed by Mr. Loughner don’t you also have to agree that there must be an
absolute right? If objective badness
exists doesn’t there also have to be objective good against which, and in
juxtaposition, we compare that bad act?

C.S. Lewis told us that
there must be a measuring rod outside of those things being measured or we can
do no measuring. The measuring rod of
evil can only be the reality of an unchanging and immutable standard of
good. Without a Logos, the Tao, a Word
and a Way beyond you and me: Beyond opinion, politics and power – how would we
know or recognize those things we call wrong, unfair, bad or evil? Wouldn’t the

Article source: http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/11644237/