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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh Sabaoth" Zach 4:6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dio di Signore, nella Sua volontà è nostra pace!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin 1759

Monday, September 15, 2008

An Answer to Simplex Vir's Question

I have a book of daily readings from the writings of C.S. Lewis. The other day I read a quote from Mere Christianity on how good & evil operate. At about the same time I put up a post on Planned Parenthood's latest infamia! (Planned Parenthood Again Shows It Cares More About Money Than the Health of Its Victims*) I had the following comment about that post from Simplex Vir: "What they just weren't evil enough?" I think Lewis' comment can answer this so much better than I can. (Emphasis mine)
"Consequently, though Christian charity sounds a very cold thing to people whose heads are full of sentimentality, and though it is quite distinct from affection, yet it leads to affection. The difference between a Christian and a worldly man is not that the worldly man has only affections or 'likings' and the Christian has only 'charity'. The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds himself liking more and more people as he goes on — including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
This same spiritual law works terribly in the opposite direction. The Germans, perhaps, at first ill-treated the Jews because they hated them: afterwards they hated them much more because they had ill-treated them.
The more cruel you are, the more you will hate; and the more you hate, the more cruel you will become — and so on in a vicious circle for ever.
Good and evil both increase at compound interest.
That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.
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(Mere Christianity, Book III - Christian Behavior, Chapter 9 - Charity, 1952)
Sadly, Vir we are seeing that very thing happen with PP. The evil that is the"culture of death" cannot be sated. If left unchecked, it grows & expands. It seeks new ways to expand the evil it does. PP doesn't care for women, but it likes to pretend it does. As a part of the "culture of death", it really seeks to hurt them & all of us as well. The more it harms us the more it wants to do worse harm. That is why we cannot be silent, praying, protesting, speaking out & working as best we can to stop PP from doing what it does. In the end, the good we do will bear fruit far beyond the little bit we seem to be doing now. But, we must do it!!!!

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