Pondering Evil

 

At the antiques shop in downtown Minocqua, I saw a necklace that seemed like a chaplet, with a cross and then four groups of seven beads. I didn't get it, but later it occurred to me that it was probably an Anglican chaplet, and an internet search confirmed that they do use this configuration. Today my "Sacred Heart" chaplet arrived from Marytown, and it has a Sacred Heart center medal, but it's just a regular rosary as far as the configuration of beads. This wasn't what I saw before, so either they grabbed the wrong thing, or I saw it at a different gift shop.

Continuing my thoughts from yesterday about super-rich people buying struggling businesses and then closing them because it is somehow profitable for them: I am not sure how this is legal, since it certainly isn't ethical, but lately greed doesn't seem to be considered a sin. They did it to Sears, which is a venerable company, and it's like they don't care how many people lose their livelihoods... and then they are the same people who would not want their taxes to go up to support the social safety net, because "people should just get jobs." I can see why a lot of working-class people are deeply suspicious of East Coast politicians, because they are in the pockets of these rich people who do such things, but then I wondered why so many working-class people think our current president is on their side. He is one of the destroyers, claiming bankruptcy for his businesses while coming out ahead personally. He has ruined many small businesses that were contracting with him when he refused to pay them. Then it occurred to me: he was able to play off the evil part of the working class people. They don't care how badly they are treated as long as they are promised that brown people will be treated worse. If they weren't so racist, all the working-class people of every color could band together and vote out the evil rich people who are currently in charge. But that will never happen. It was a sobering glimpse of the ugliness God must see when He looks into the human heart. People will destroy themselves to hold onto their own sin. They would rather be racist and taken advantage of by the powerful than live in a truly equal society. It was a depressing revelation.  

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