Actually the devil is everywhere. The devil personifies evil which is everywhere, we just need to recognize its presence. I believe that the devil is not a man dressed in a red suit and having horns and a pitchfork. This may be perfect for Halloween, but no help in real life. The devil is evil, pure and simple. The devil’s tools are seduction, charisma, thoughts of utopia, the internet, and no limits to pleasure, including sex, drugs, atheism, alcohol, crime, and causing hurt to others. Good, on the other hand, is the total opposite.
Good is based on common sense, religion, belief in a supreme being or creator, responsibility, work ethic, care for others and moderation in our daily lives. Religion tends to give the believer some extra help in recognizing evil and the pitfalls in dealing with it. Warnings to beware of specific evils that are especially destructive are very helpful at times. This has worked for thousands of years for many and has also been ignored by many for the same amount of time. And during that time we have had to make choices between good and evil constantly in our daily lives. Choices can be our salvation.
The above sounds to me a lot like the difference between the liberal and conservative ways of thinking. Liberals want to change everything to a utopian way of life. A lot like living in a sort of Garden of Eden where there are no choices or responsibilities and no limits. This reminds me of the story of Pinocchio and one of his difficult choices. He was seduced into going to “Pleasure Island,” the island of lost boys. Everything was available with no limits or responsibility. It was decadent beyond his wildest dreams, until it wasn’t, and he ended up as a slave with donkey ears. He was seduced with false promises.
This seems to mirror our own society at the moment. We are being seduced with false promises of liberal agendas of the “green new deal” being an easy fix to climate change by getting rid of coal and oil and exclusively using wind and solar without explaining that we do not have grids that can handle this load. The battery necessities, and grids are not powerful enough for this kind or amount of load, and will not be ready for many decades. This, like electric cars, is an idea that is premature and ill thought out. It is a scam. Someone is making lots of money. Liberal education is now about teaching sexual perversion in school and perversions of fundamental subjects that used to be helpful to our young. Liberal politics needs censorship to pass laws that are useless or even destructive. The content must stay hidden until it becomes law. Irresponsible printing of billions of dollars by the Federal Reserve has caused inflation and printing even more is said to be the cure. Raising taxes is said to be the cure for our recession. All of this insanity comes from the inmates of the White House.
Every one of us has to make daily choices between good and evil. We can be responsible, care for others, sensibly educate our young, have a religion as our moral compass and express our patriotism and a love for our country or not. But we have this choice. Until we don’t. We need to remember the the devil is in all of our details with a seductiveness that is very difficult to resist. The devil and evil is relentless, but we have a choice and common sense if we choose to use them. Let us choose wisely.