What is happening the world over is war, a war of what I want versus what is, of utopian flights of fancy versus reality, of power versus wisdom, of lies versus the truth, a war of willful blindness versus the real acceptance of what we are with our limits and our responsibilities, a war of resentment versus gratitude, of rage versus humility, of control versus joy.
It is not a new war. This war has raged since Lucifer’s resounding “No!” We, we human beings that is, entered it at the dawn of our existence. Our progenitors made it ours when they chose the what I want (to be God) over what is (God himself, His creation, His providence), when they chose power (attempting to be the sole determiners of their own destinies) over wisdom (realizing that one cannot be the sole master of what he cannot control, the standard of what he has not created), when they chose to believe lies (“you will not die”) over believing the truth (“you shall not eat of the fruit… lest you die”), when they chose control over joy.
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Our nation’s real battle is taking place in the individual minds and wills of each and every one of us. We are, each of us, fighting the war. Publicly trouncing the Protagorases, the Marxes, the Nieztsches, the Sartres, the legion of liars does not help people see what they must in order to win the real war raging within themselves.
When the serpent slithered into the garden, intent on bringing the war to mankind, it did not do so with a roar, with a sword, brandishing fire. It did not frighten Adam and Eve into submission by showing its power. It did not place its army on an open battlefield. The serpent seduced Eve in the quiet of her own mind: “you will be like God,” it whispered.
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