The Evil Gathers Itself

That was a dramatic title, no? Evil has always been a part of the world, but the last couple of years has brought the evil that lies in shadows to the light. We can visibly see the evil, whereas in years past, evil was a conspiracy theory that made a good many of us roll our eyes or smirk. Lesson one: it doesn’t pay to be glib, smug, and nonbelieving, as the truth has a way of catching up.

I’m not an impassioned person like Alex Jones — though we all should be a little more ready to shout until we’re hoarse and lose our credibility for the sake of truth — and yet, I used to regularly have these arguments about evil and truth with the pragmatists of the world. While the pragmatists were willing to vote for men like the Bushes, I saw them as evil, demon-possessed trolls. Yes, that was the way they appeared to me. And their actions didn’t change my mind.

I don’t want to obsess over the past or argue with people any longer. Lesson two: it’s useless to change a pragmatist’s mind. They must come to their own conclusions. But I admit I feel a little vindicated now that the entities I knew were corrupted with evil, such as the FDA and CDC, are coming out of their tombs or their coffins, or wherever it is that demonic vampires dwell. The funny part is I had fewer arguments with leftists once upon a time due to their knowing the FDA was in bed with big corporations like Monsanto. But now they’re apparently as pure as the driven snow regarding Covid vaccines according to leftists, and many of my old conservative pragmatist friends have changed their tune.

Information is really difficult to control, ultimately. It has a way of being put forward, even in times before the internet. There were underground resistance papers during the World Wars, for example, and in communist states. Now many of these anticommunist information gatherers have moved to YouTube and are being purged for badthink. Freedom of the press in the US is a complete scam. There is freedom of the press for the state propagandists, and anyone else is eventually shut down. However, as I already said, it’s difficult to control information. It gets out there before it’s taken down, and it is archived by many.

Lately, I do feel as if I’m watching two movie reels simultaneously, due to the difficulty of the state to control information. I read articles detailing world stats and information about Covid vaccines, their safety and efficiency, and giving voice to eyewitness testimonies of people in the medical field; and then I read the AP news as it pops up on my phone (I’ve tried to block it, but the news streams always find a way, I guess) to see our media, FDA, and CDC are pushing the exact opposite information than what I’ve been reading. The vaccines are dangerous at worst and ineffective at best, but they FDA has gone ahead and approved them for children, and the CDC and Biden admin are still touting them as better for immunity than actually getting Covid and pushing forward their mandates that have the potential to shut down the economy.

There is a big difference between being a sinful human who is prone to error in thought and giving oneself over to evil. It’s my opinion that the political elites have done just that. I’m sure that doesn’t apply to all of them; some are no doubt simply compromised and haven’t yet been consumed by the blood-sucking demons of worldly control and filthy lucre. Take, for example, Amy Coney Barrett: she went ahead and took the devil’s proffered golden ticket in the form of a lucrative book deal, and now belongs to the wrong camp. But is she fully taken over by evil? She is young yet. There is still time. I don’t believe that is the case with a man like Biden. I don’t believe he’s operating with any kind of conscience any longer. His beady little eyes tell me he’s demon-possessed, and he will do whatever is backwards and wrong for humanity because he does what his master the devil tells him. He doesn’t sound as if he’s able to produce independent thought. Contrast that with a man who is simply confused and sinful like Trump. He had to be removed from office because he hadn’t sold his soul to the powers that be. There was still a conscience there, even if he didn’t always know what the right thing to do was. Obviously, that doesn’t mean Trump is a good man. Sinful and confused still apply to Trump.

Do you think I’m being dramatic? I’m not. Neither am I a pragmatist. The fight between good and evil in this world is very real. But the question for us is the same as it’s always been, even before Joshua stood before the Israelites and told them to “choose this day whom you will serve; as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (this comes from Joshua 24:15).* So, whom will you choose to serve? As for me, I have never chosen to serve the God of pragmatism as many of my conservative family and friends have chosen to do. Pragmatism allows for great evil. Being perceived as reasonable will cause you to compromise.

Instead, be the opposite of pragmatic. Don’t be practical just because it will be easier to achieve or maintain your worldly status. Be like this little girl from Florida, who has more determination in her pinky than most adults have in their entire bodies: Florida Second-Grader Suspended 36 Times Over Mask Mandate. And if you want a clear evidence of evil rearing its ugly head, look at the school boards around the country that are trying to silence parents and push through evil propagandist curriculum. All of that has come to pass since Covid. I’m not sure if the wicked governors who continue pushing mandates on the people knew when they began that the evil was going to leak out in unexpected ways and wake up the complacent go-along-to-get-along people of this nation. Lesson three: the law of unintended consequences will always be there to thwart your best efforts.

*This is our family verse. It was the verse my mom drew in the cement sidewalk when the foundation to our shared house (at that time) was poured. It was the verse the Lutheran pastor chose for our family when we joined the Lutheran church. When we moved into our current house, the people who were selling it had left a keyring hanging up on a hook that uncannily bore this verse. We are constantly reminded of it.