Well, no … you would be the one with a high opinion of yourself if you feel that you somehow don’t have within yourself the ability to do horrible things. It is a very convenient lie that allows us to find the blame for evil externally, as if we have no culpability for it. It is only when we recognize our own capacity to do the very things we despise that we can focus on the circumstances or choices (the Spirit moving?) that precluded us from doing them and offer those to the perpetrators of great evil.
laurencer
Nov 07 2006
08:11 am
Well, no … you would be the one with a high opinion of yourself if you feel that you somehow don’t have within yourself the ability to do horrible things. It is a very convenient lie that allows us to find the blame for evil externally, as if we have no culpability for it. It is only when we recognize our own capacity to do the very things we despise that we can focus on the circumstances or choices (the Spirit moving?) that precluded us from doing them and offer those to the perpetrators of great evil.