Evil Exists

There are people who presuppose that men are good and that it is a warp and twist of the mind that causes men to go astray. Doctors and scientists are searching for a cure by isolating some gene or chemical in our gray matter that causes men to do despicable things. Recently, I saw a video of a man kicking an old lady multiple times on a subway while others stood by filming the incident. The lady was someone’s mother, grandmother, or sister and yet no one raised a finger to stop the vicious assault.

Edmund Burke said more than 100 years ago, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil was that good men should do nothing.” Whether the stranger who assaulted the woman was on drugs, had anger issues, or was filled with alcohol, the result was the same. This innocent woman was admitted to a hospital with head and chest injuries.

People try to blame guns for killings that have happened recently, but incidents of mass killings have happened long before gunpowder was invented. Clubs, rocks, swords, and spears were used in the past: Roman times, the era when Genghis Kahn rode the steppes, and in biblical times. Was it the weapons that caused those thousands of deaths or evil?

Evil exists; how else can you explain the oppression, the graft, the treachery, and the taking of lives in the world? The word evil found in the Bible fill nearly three pages of the “Young’s Analytical Concordance.” Evil isn’t a chemical imbalance in the brain; it’s an issue of the heart. The book of “Mark” says, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.” Mark 7:21-23

How can we explain people in power abusing their subordinates, embezzling tax monies, or passing laws that allow the murder of innocent children? How can physicians who make the promise to do no harm, rip babies from the womb and call it health care?

Have we, United States citizens, awakened to the fact since prayer and the Bible have been removed from schools evil has grown? Have we noticed that since abortions were legalized our youth has lost reverence for life? Single parent families are creating a lack of responsibility for the father and in the promiscuity of the young women. The consequences of their actions are condoned instead of condemned.