Good and Evil: What Exactly Are We Afraid Of?
February 19, 2012 by Joyce Dierschke
Filed under In The News, Intuition / Psychic, Paranormal
A friend brought up an interesting question today: Why are people afraid of ghosts and other things they don’t fully understand?
Some people are born seekers. They need answers to life’s mysteries. They are investigators needing to know the whole truth about the world – seen and unseen. They question everything and rarely accept answers given, they prefer to find the truth on their own. To everything we supposedly already “know” – they continue to ask “Why?” and How?”.
These are the dreamers, the inventors. They are not afraid of the unknown – in fact they believe that the unknown is nothing to be feared, but only to be discovered and explored. They believe – or at least want to believe – that this is more to our world than our everyday reality may suggest.
“Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow. “
Men In Black, 1997
Without these seekers, what would we know of the world at all? What if Euclid never thought about angles? What if the Wright Brothers never dreamed of flying? What if early man never figured out how to make fire? What if Gutenberg never entertained the idea of the printed word? What if Steve Jobs had decided to become a plumber? The world is built by dreamers and seekers.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, there are those who fear such questioning and often do their best to quash it. Many of the fearful hide behind the Bible saying such seeking can only be the work of the devil, and that it is not our place to question anything – lest we be overtaken by the devil. Yet the Bible continually tells us that, in fact, we have nothing to fear. God walks beside each of us, whether we acknowledge him or not; whether we call him God or not; whether we believe in Him…or not.
“Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me…”
Psalm 23“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”
Psalm 27
So what exactly are we afraid of?
The fearful believe that evil intent is behind certain questions. That seekers of universal truths are manipulated by the devil. To want answers or knowledge is to only to indulge, encourage and strengthen evil. But the devil is a crafty one. It is doubtful that he would hide amid life’s mysteries. No, the devil is more likely to hide in plain sight.
You’re much more likely to encounter evil in the office of a greed-motivated corporate CEO, a high powered politician, or a charismatic preacher raking in millions in God’s name than you are in a darkened museum with a paranormal investigation team or in the hands of a tarot card reader. If we know anything about the devil, we know that his is limitlessly creative and cleverly insidous.
Why don’t the fearful point their accusatory fingers at a big bank that rewards themselves with billion dollar bonuses while at the same time foreclosing on families and the elderly? Or at the enormous agribusiness conglomerate that poisons our food chain with hormones, antibiotics and pesticides and treats animals as comodities rather than living, breathing, creatures of God? Or at governments so corrupt that they’ve created a super-class of politicians that regularly make decisions on the advice of well-paid corporate lobbyists without regard to the impact of those decisions on the populace?
Instead, they point at the seekers. Because they’re an easy target. Because the fearful know they have no power against real evil, so they concoct an evil that they can defeat and make themselves feel better. Those who ask Why? And How? These are the threat, they say, while the greatest and true evil that surrounds them goes unnoticed, ignored and worse – accepted.
Yes, the devil exists, and he certainly is a crafty one.
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