Secular relativism is a branch of progressivism that says evil is subjective. Relative. One transgendered man’s good is another’s evil. As such, evil does not exist. And for good measure, what few bad things there are can be contained by government oversight and policing.
You don’t need to defend yourself. In fact, they’d appreciate it if you’d just lie down until they need you for something.
But there is evil, and it kills people (mostly liberals) who buy into the lie. And if you need an example, I give you Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan.
Let’s Buy the World a Coke!
Jay and Lauren gave up the hustle of Washington DC and decided to bike the world. Quit their jobs. Set out on a grand adventure. They blogged the experience, where, at some point, Jay shared his thoughts about evil.
Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own—it’s easier to dismiss an opinion as abhorrent than strive to understand it. Badness exists, sure, but even that’s quite rare. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind. No greater revelation has come from our journey than this.
A journey that ended in Tajikistan when ISIS (humans holding different values) murdered the couple.
Islamic radicals drove a vehicle into the cyclists, exited the vehicle with knives, and killed them. Why? They had different beliefs and perspectives. They were not Muslim. So, that’s what, a hate crime? Or is it an ideological blind-spot caused disaster?
It’s not Badness it’s Evil
Yes, the world is filled with people who are not evil. There are often those who will give of themselves to help others. Even in some of the most poverty-stricken and run down corners of the earth. But the assumption that your relativism applies to everyone else is not just wrong it is sadly ironic.
Jay and Lauren’s murderers probably believe they are doing good. Removing infidels from the mortal plane. People who do not agree with them or believe as they do. Which has another irony?
Murder is evil. But most humans and all their complexities (with a few exceptions) don’t start with murder. They begin with intolerance of other peoples ideas.
The purveyors of relativism, the political Left, have no tolerance for those who do not believe as they do. Silencing them is their right, and violence is an option.
You know, and I know you do, that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was conviving the world he didn’t exist.
Whether you believe in gods or devils makes no matter. There is evil in the world.
It does not always come to kill you but it will if that’s what it believes is required. And it always tries to hide by pretending that it does not exist.
