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Text Box: People are creatures and creatures make mistakes. Some people have no regard for others and do what ever they want to do without considering the bad effects their actions have on others. And some people do things because what they do will have a bad effect on someone. It is understandable that people make mistakes. But it is impossible to comprehend people doing what ever they want to do without regard to the evil their actions inflict on others. Not after everyone has seen the horrible effects shoddy workmanship on the levees, and careless treatment of the swamps and marshes, have had on hundreds of thousands of people. And regarding those who continue to do evil upon the public, it is as though they do it because of the evil they can inflict upon the public. If those who have abandoned their Faith will just realize that many of the evils which have befallen them have occurred because evil people caused them to happen, or caused the effects to be much more severe, perhaps they will return to the true Faith. And if the populace is ever to have honest politicians, the public must accept the fact that there are many people who are evil because they wish to be evil. That evil people do evil, produce evil, live in and for evil, and that evil harms people. Evil does not have to look ugly. It can appear to be very beautiful, handsome, be delightful in humor and the social graces, and even give to charities and help other people. But it does these things for evil purposes. A good example of this is The Gates Foundation, to which Warren Buffet is to give more than $44 billion. Since 1998 the Gates Foundation has given over $36 million to the Planned Parenthood abortion mills, and for the purpose of persuading teenagers to have abortions, to lobby the United Nations for pro abortion programs, to establish

Text Box: abortion centers in developing nations, South America, and Eastern Europe, as well as the USA and Canada (Ref: Choose Life July/Aug 2006). Through his foundation Bill Gates has also given much smaller amounts to assist the public school systems in the area afflicted by the hurricanes. Evil never sleeps. It always is seeking new ways to do evil, while improving its old ways of doing evil. Those of good will must not just be on the look out for evil, not just defend against evil, but must attack evil; for the only successful defense is to attack. If you have two people on your side and the enemy is ten thousand strong, if you attempt to secure a defensive position, you will be over run. But if you attack and attack very carefully, with a studied plan, you can wear away and eventually defeat your opponent. Evil has learned this lesson, and is using it in the terrorist attacks against the free world. If the free world has no moral backbone; if it is not willing to say, “Evil stops here and must be pushed back,” and then do it, then there is not sufficient moral backbone to defeat that evil. It is tiring to be constantly at war, such as the war on terrorism. It is just as tiring to be constantly at war against the other forms of evil such as corruption in government, evil in drug use and drug dealers, and protecting one’s self against those who would take advantage of others. But when we comprehend what is the goal we seek, that it is eternal happiness with God in heaven, we can understand that it is worth a life time of battle. Ref: 1 Cor. 15:1-10; Mark 7:31-37 +

Text Box: MATERIALISM’S DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE ON THE FAMILY “And the multitude feared . . . seeing that God had given such power to men.” The focus of the people who witnessed the miraculous cure was on the power Our Saviour exhibited in curing someone who was so ill. Their focus was not on that power being proof of His having forgiven the sins of that same man. This is an example of the most overt form of the oldest conflict, that between Good which is of God alone, and evil, which is the only product of those who oppose God. This conflict takes its most common form in the opposition between those who focus on pursuit of the spiritual and moral life which God espouses, and those who focus on pursuit of material things and the practice of materialism, which always is in opposition to God. One of the most horrible expressions of materialism is in the undesirable forms of relationships which often exist between older and younger adult relatives: between parents and their adult children and adult grandchildren; between aunts and uncles and their adult nephews and nieces. Some adult children look upon their living adult ancestors as persons who are to be cherished, and even protected and assisted if necessary, always with love and affection. These adult children have rejected materialism, at least as regards their parents and grandparents. Other adult children perceive their parents and grandparents as a treasury from which material benefits are to be obtained. Some others perceive them as a burden. And some others perceive them as an obstacle. And some others perceive them as oppressors. From time to time all of these perceptions may exist and may be valid and accurate, but one of them will be

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