The world is not a battle between good and evil. It’s the world. Western philosophy likes to break the world into dualities, oppositional forces. But it’s the world. Good and evil are concepts in flux in mankind as well as in each man or woman. Good and evil are in a dynamic dance aiming for an always transitional living balance. It’s the world.
It’s a frustrating affair to expect a resolution. The real satisfaction is in meeting the challenge, dancing the dance, being comfortable with the reality of no finality, yet still aiming to live a good life.
In the end, I think the Church got it wrong. We aren’t born tainted evil, which must be washed away with baptism. We are born carrying the Garden of Eden in us. And since we will never reach perfection in the world, we can count on redemption to bring us back to the Garden.
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