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MissLadyK's avatar

I’ve said this many times. Evil thrives, not because of exceptional people, but because of ordinary, unexceptional people. Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “Banality of Evil”. Because of her thesis, she was ostracized by the “intellectual community.” Why would these “intellectuals” feel so insulted by her work? She was a Jew that not only studied her own religious theology, but she studied Christian theology as well. She was truly brilliant, escaped persecution and the murdering of Jews in her own country, came to the US where she became a professor, attended the Nuremberg trials and wrote the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. She was so spot on that, and this happens regularly, she was shunned by the Elites. Elites today twist her concepts to support their own muddled totalitarian ideas much like they’ve done with the New Testament or similar old and ancient texts. There are so many layers of false illusions, one can barely begin examining what truth is. But Truth is being revealed to us now more than ever. Perhaps why we’re being squeezed through the eye of the needle., it’s all coming to a head, exposed. Out of the ashes who will survive? Will it be the Psychopathic Corporatists using Communism, etc., chaos, fear and lies as their tools for success or will it be Freedom loving, Truth loving people ready to build once again strong communities, healthy families, healing medical facilities, producing healthy meats and vegetables, water and energy leading optimistic hopeful lives free of the shackles of authoritarian propagandized governments? God is powerfully, we, who are created in His image are powerful, faith, hope, optimism is powerful. The only power Evil has are what people, who are greedy, corrupt, who feel too inadequate to live honest truthful lives, give it and good people who sit back, do nothing and allow it to flourish. Are you going to choose slavery or break free and take some risks, your Faith in what is good and truthful will see you through a very chaotic and difficult time. A difficult time we all will journey through no matter which side you pick. Don’t leave future generations scratching their head wondering how on earth anyone could have allowed it to happen.

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Catherine Hazur's avatar

"By keeping silent about evil and burying it deep within so that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice frombenesth new generations."

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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