Evil has been with us from the beginning of time – ever since Cain killed Abel out of jealousy for having done the right thing. As horrific as it was for a brother to be killed at the hands of his own brother, it didn’t stop there.
Rather than becoming introspective, willing to challenge ourselves to see how we can do a better job of caring for one another, the opposite is happening.
Take, for example, the events over the past few days. It began with the news that a shooter was on a killing spree at yet another campus, this time, Brown University in Rhode Island. That tragedy ended with the death of two and the wounding of nine.
Just as we were trying to wrap our heads around the senseless loss, reports came in from the other side of the world where a Chanukah lighting ceremony was taking place at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen, a father and son, indiscriminately sprayed the area with bullets, leaving 16 dead and another 40 wounded.
How do you process such events, within the span of two day? The image of two defenseless women on light rail trains, one being stabbed and the other being set on fire by two monsters is still fresh in our minds.
But then, to make sure that we got a full dose of evil in our time, we woke up to the news that Hollywood director Rob Reiner, along with his wife, were bludgeoned to death by their son.
The news doesn’t get worse than that if you still have any semblance of a heart, a soul and a working conscience. It’s enough to make anyone realize that we can no longer keep up with the intense level of depravity to which we, as a species, have sunk.
There is something terribly wrong with the trajectory of where we’re headed, forcing us to confront the people we have become. How much more of this can we take before completely imploding as a human experiment?
Many of us instinctively know that we haven’t even seen anything yet when it comes to the depths that society will fall. Which leads to the question as to how we will survive the further onslaught of profound evil and degradation that is coming.
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