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The Problem Of Evil by Blitz4real(m): 1:17am On Nov 30, 2014 |
The problem of evil is so wide, so encompassing, and so gargantuan that it has engaged the thoughts of scholars, researchers, theologians, and ordinary men and women in all cultures and in all regions throughout the ages. And this problem has continued to grow and has grown so big, so thick that one can actually touch it. Any time and anywhere you find evil or an evil deed, you are always bound to ask ‘why should such and such happen?’ Throughout the landscape of history you are faced with hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of experiences of unexplainable acts of man’s inhumanity to man. One is compelled to wonder how any human being could ever have conceived the idea of inflicting such horrendous act of cruelty and wickedness on a fellow human being. We know what, but why should any one pick up an axe and smash the head of a wife or husband until the skull empties its contents in a pool of blood? The what is usually tied to money, fear of losing a spouse through imminent divorce, property or pursuit of power and position. But why perpetrate such great evil of taking another person’s life in cold blood; a life that once it is taken cannot be replaced? Look at transcontinental slave trade. Innocent fellow human beings were uprooted from their ancestral homes as FREE men and women and were immediately thereafter transformed into slaves with subsequent suffering, horror, trauma, indignity, deprivation, humiliation, rape and senseless murder. To imagine that such unprecedented act of evil could be allowed to last a span of 400, repeat 400 years without the evil perpetrators blinking an eye speaks volumes for the depravity of the beasts in human skin that made it happen. Just close your eyes, and imagine with your mind’s eye the picture of a man piercing the lips of another man and putting a load of heavy padlock to lock up the victim’s mouth so that the slave victim could not communicate with his fellow slave victim, in some cases, his brother or his equally enslaved children or his wife before enforced slavery. Just imagine! Imagine a slave woman being serially and regularly raped in the presence of her husband by some smelly pink skinned perverts. To imagine that perpetrators of this horrific acts of evil carried the Bible in their hands and quoted scriptures [written of course by the same evil purveyors]to justify their fiendish acts is to begin to wonder how far evil men and women can go to justify acts of inhumanity. Less than 10 years after the symbolic abolition of physical slavery economic slavery, which is worse than physical slavery and mental slavery, the enslavement of the mind took root. And that three-legged evil continues unabated till the present moment. In fact the triplet is waxing stronger by the day. Again, less than 50 years after the so-called abolition of physical slavery, a big evil perpetrator woke up on the wrong side of his bed and convinced himself that Jews were less than human and the entire race should be wiped off the surface of Europe. Innocent men and women stripped raw naked were heralded like sheep into the gas chamber to be roasted alive and burnt to ashes. How could anybody’s mind conceive of such horror? Evil. We can go on and on to itemise acts of evil that have beclouded the world. Palestinians have been living a life of living dead in the last 65 years with some of them permanently domiciled in refugee camps under the flimsy excuse that some one was born of a slave mother and another child was born by a legitimate wife. Arrant nonsense, when the historical fact is that Ibraheem/ Abraham/Braimoh/ Brimo was born in Ur in present day Iraq, which without a doubt means the Arab-Patriarch of the Jews was a full blooded Arab. But this piece is NOT about slave trade, the holocaust, the murder of 27 million Congolese by King Leopold or the plundering of wealth of India, Africa and the Middle East or the rabid enslavement of the African mind through some ill-digested archaic dogmas. These are just some of the examples of the depravity bred by evil. The big question is why is there so much evil in this world? It is a theological question as well as a psychological question. It is a philosophical question as well as a political question. It is a chemical question, the chemistry of the human brain as well as psychiatric question. Researchers must pay as much attention as they pay to Cancer Research as they should pay to Evil Research. There is so much suffering in the world. There is so much brazen injustice. There is ugly and horrifying wickedness. I am not concerned about some bogus pedestrian and utterly irrational and unscientific argument that some child born to Ben Panthera some two thousand years ago died for the sins [acts of evil]that may still be perpetrated 2000 years hence and that once you confess after killing your father and raping your mother, you are automatically for given and shall go upstairs in the clouds and eat eba and ogbono with some one in a funny utopia called Al-janna or Paradise! This kind of dogma can only fuel acts of evil. Kill, confess, repent, heaven! Sleep with your daughters. Confess, repent, heaven. Empty the nation’s treasury, confess, repent, heaven! The sad corollary, contradiction and the glaring deceit in this unimaginative dogma is that the people who brought this dogma to Africa are the most unforgiving of human race. And they exert the stiffest penalty including long term imprisonment and even death penalty on offenders. I repeat that we must all find solution to the question of evil. I am aware that the classic novel Lord of the Flies tends to suggest that evil is inherent in every human being, but also adds that the elements and environment can also be good breeding ground for evil. This is to therefore suggest that as much as evil could be embedded in human nature, it also lends itself to causative efects. Enslaved African minds that have been so permanently shut to reasoning are quick to suggest that holding on to God or prayers will be the solution and end to evil when empirical evidence on ground suggests the contrary. Burning people alive in propagation of religion, or starving flocks to death, while their pastors, imams and rabbis are feeding fat and emitting loud bang of fart and burying their heads in clouds of jet planes, is a loud affirmation of the worst evil. This writer does not have all the answers to the problematic question of evil, but the world should draw its attention to it and device ways and means of minimising it. Massive poverty, massive corruption, massive unemployment, the crass inequality in the distribution of world resources are all by-products of evil, the abuse of power, position and privilege by one man over the other. Religion, whatever it means cannot and will not end evil and evil doing because almost all religious dogmas and literatures justify the exploitation of one man by another and the ascendancy master-servant relationship in human affairs. We have to look in other direction if mankind is to deal a decisive blow on evil or look on until evil consumes the earth. |
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