Monday, April 25, 2022 | 2 a.m.
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Does Brian Greenspun’s April 17 column “Holidays (Passover and Easter) inspire us to deliver world from evil” presuppose religious people (and people in general) know evil when they see it? And if they see it, whether they care?
In the New Testament, it is written woe to those who consider bad is good and good is bad. Remember when some self-professed white evangelicals would attend service on Sunday morning, and participate in a lynching that afternoon — even bringing their children?
People compartmentalize values when it’s expedient to do so. If values are compartmentalized, can they exist? Perhaps it’s human nature to do so. Politics over the past five years seems to have led to an escalation of people able to accept and normalize hatred, bigotry, assault, fraud, insurrection and lies; and some politicians are even building campaigns on such.
It might be good if we could always recognize evilness. However, while some things are clear cut, others are more nuanced than we would like.
That’s why parents automatically assume as a core responsibility teaching children right from wrong. Institutions such as churches, mosques, temples and synagogues have as a raison d’ etre assisting us with this. One has to wonder how this is being done in these institutions, and how the laity interpret the message.
