Well, they are indeed
in need of healing – but possibly more so than can be achieved in one lifetime,
and a far more pressing need may be to stop the active and profoundly negative (what I would term evil) influence they
may be having on others. An example I give is that someone who is shooting
people with a gun (whether such is a
criminal rampage or domestic violence or mental problems or something else)
needs to be stopped, and that may involve the person being shot for the sake of
others. Another example would be that Hitler and his cronies should have been stopped
before World War 2 or the Holocaust or any of the other horrors associated with
that regime happened. As a third example, people who are abusing children need
to be stopped and the children taken to a genuinely safe, supportive, healing,
loving place ahead of any healing needs of the abuser.
Having made those
points, however, I also have to state that much of the old descriptions of ‘good’
vs. ‘evil’ are largely excuses to enforce bigotry - for example, the rubbish
promulgated against LGBTIQ people until the late 20th Century (and still, in some backward parts of the
world, such as ‘red neck’ areas of Western societies), or as an excuse to
avoid improving oneself.
This ancient
religion, Zoroastrianism, still exists today – in fact, I understand Freddie
Mercury was born into a Parsi family who were adherents of Zoroastrianism.
For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsi
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury.
As of the time this
definition was written, I’ve touched on this idea (of the struggle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’, and the need to restrain some
people who are having actively and profoundly negative influences on people who
are victims) in the following posts:
Post No. 527 For tonight’s meditation
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