Posted by
ChrisR on Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:03:26 PM
Evil, noun definition courtesy of Answers.com:
- The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
- That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.
- An evil force, power, or personification.
- Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.
This just doesn't cut it. What has been happening these last years, the escalation of horrible, unreasonable hate, violence perpetrated on innocent people has to have more than the answers given by authorities, social scientists, religious leaders
and every other "type" that thinks they have answers. They don't! It is time we began to consider alternatives because the
episodes started somewhere very close to the 1970's. The 1970's, the beginning of "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll"...did no one think that once you began to undo what had been at work for nearly 5,000 years the results would be what we have been horribly aware of these past twenty years or so. Guns or no, murders occur at a frightening rate. Rapes of young children and old people feels on the rise, casual violence on streets, school buses or school campuses are virulent. Beatings for being the wrong sex, color, persuasion or because it happens to be Tuesday past noon increase weekly. Do those responsible get arrested? Do those responsible have a trial and go to jail if convicted? No. But, they can indict and sentence a 6 year old to reform school for bringing in a boy scout tool....does it make sense to you? Or, is it just me. The world has been going topsy turvey and am I the only one that notices? No. When will we stand up and express our outrage at this and those other things that are wrong in this country. When?
So, I went looking for a different word to use that carries some "substance": iniquitous meaning wicked and gross immoral or how about peccant: adj.
- Sinful; guilty. Violating a rule or an accepted practice; erring.
Not very descriptive of what is happening...is it? I will continue to look because it is important to describe a thing properly.
Maybe that is at the core of the problem, we don't use the proper definitions of words to describe the atrocities committee in the name of the "Sex, Drugs and Rock&Roll" generation and their children and grandchildren. We need to rethink our lexicon and be firm of what we believe and know to be the truth.