'Why Do the Evil Prosper?'

'Why Do the Evil Prosper?': From my standpoint, I'm glad that I absorbed as much original sin theology before being swept up in the human potential movement that made us and Jesus into unalloyed positivity. It helps at times...

MGB:_There are a lot of themes here. The Psalms, the prophetic books and Revelation are all part of an apocolyptic tradition that decries injustice and perceived evil (although in terms of Revelation, the Judaizers the author supported faded from history and Pauline Christianity won out). Holy Week takes us a different way, toward forgiveness being required to receive it. Moral philosophy states that evil comes from free will, as the intellect can only chose between lesser goods, the absolute good being absent. Marxists would say that our hope in a resurrection or in a day of the Lord is a weakness, deradicalizing those we need to radicalize.

So how to procede? If Constantine could conquer under the banner of the Cross, we can certainly radicalize under the same banner, from expanding cooperatives, union and employee-owned firms to a more complete socialism to tax policy that favors families with children to using the power of the United States to force everyone from Gaza and Turkey to Pakistan into a peace conference to iron out borders to stop the violence or else.