Where to Draw the Line

To All God's Children,


--> -->My beliefs are similar to the Taoists also that the forces of evil and good are conflicting. To this end, they conflict so prevalently that it’s difficult to separate the two. Like Spinoza's monism, there is no separation between the sacred and secular. And contrary to what many believe I don’t think there’s a separation between what we perceive as male or female.
There are too many exceptions to the rules or “on conditions” for there to be a distinct dichotomy between these concepts. To have good we must have evil because in order to define an act as evil you must have a good act of which to relate. But does either one exist? What’s seen as good for one person may be evil for another. This means that what is evil is relative to the perceiver. There is no good or evil just the choices we make from our limited free will.

However, our choices are influenced by our lifestyle and where and who we were born to and as. So once we are let loose into the world we have a limited amount of freedom influenced by our experiences. In many ways we are trapped, so an “evil man” may have just been born with an anti-social personality developed in a bad neighborhood or abusive family. Is he really evil, or is it just circumstance?

Just to make it very clear, this is an argument against what is considered evil, not whether a criminal should be punished for his crimes or not. I believe that a person who has done wrong by another should be held accountable and held from doing the act to another.

Peace be with you

Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan