The scriptures written more than one, two or three thousands of years ago by scribes in the desert, the Bible for instance, all contain references of God conversing with the Devil. Recent U.S. presidents have often mentioned the existence of Evil in the world as a self-propelling power intent on harming us. Why is this kind of talk or thinking not considered mentally unbalanced or at least wierd?
Therein lies the danger of unbalanced judgment by whoever becomes the next most powerful individual in the world. The President exercises personal control over secret orders to the CIA, an organization exempt from all national and international laws during its covert actions. As Commander in Chief, he oversees an arsenal of tens of thousands of atom and hydrogen bombs, and we often hear mention of something called ‘ the nuclear option being on the table’.
Seeing the Devil or some imagined or prophesized metaphysical force, instead of seeing the effects of human ignorance, fear, hunger, injustice, socially inculcated materialism and cases of power driven insanity, is truly worrisome for us non-believers in the Devil and non-believers in an independent force vaguely called Evil!
