When Will People Recognize Evil??
If it doesn't affect us, North Americans tend to turn the other cheek. She was really mean and gossipy to you? Well, I will go see her because she hasn't done that to me. (Yet.) Your church did that to you? That's so hard to believe I can't hear any more. So I will still go there. I've known him for 15 years and never seen anything like what you said he did, so I don't believe you. I believe him even if you had witnesses. They haven't cheated me, so I guess they are okay even though they cheated you. And one of the worst comments of all: Oh, I don't pay attention to the news. It's too depressing. The last sentence is one I hear frequently. As a news junkie, I enjoy a good rant with fellow concerned citizens. When I converse with someone who is barely aware of ISIS ("are they bad??") I shudder. When I hear myself describing their barbaric, Old Testament behavior in the name of their twisted belief system, I am sickened. Beheadings? Dem...