They’ve Misplaced the Moral Dictionary
Ken Pullen – copyright 2010
The
problem with evil is
people.
Unless
they can smell the burning bodies
have a
number high enough to make there skin crawl
or it
flips the horrific switch in their heads
unless
their cable news network flashes the individual face of evil
on their
TV screen 9,646 times an hour
they do
not realize
evil is
the absence of good.
Ignoring
is evil.
It
allows evil to go from root to shoot to suffocating vine.
Apathy
is evil.
Nonchalance
is evil
Excuses
and deflection are evil.
The very
act is not all there is to evil
as the
people burying their heads,
turning
their faces,
sealing
their lips,
closing
their eyes
are complicit in evil growing, advancing, darkening, and suffocating
whatever
light might be available.
Evil is
cunning and subtle
it is
not always death camps,
ovens,
what is
done to bodies for pleasure
in many
of the ways we limit how we measure
The
absence of good is evil…
because
it allows evil to take root and grow
until
the darkened shade of its poisonous branches
give the
people under its canopy the illusion
of
comfort
and
normalcy right before they are forever cast into hell for eternity
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