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A 300-page report, “Silenced No More,” from an investigation led by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, was released this week, compiling over 430 testimonies from 52 countries, plus 1,800 hours of photos and videos, detailing the savage butchery committed by the terrorism group Hamas during the October 7, 2023, attack in Israel. The report documents patterns of systematic torture, sexual abuse, mass murder, and other war crimes so depraved and barbaric that the civilized Western mind simply cannot fathom them.
I’m not accustomed to citing the UK’s Daily Mail as a voice of moral authority, but the outlet had the moral and spiritual clarity to post this today about the report: “The sadistic sexual violence unleashed by Hamas against men, women and even children on Oct 7 shows that it wasn’t about history or land but pure hatred and evil.” [Emphasis added] Let’s see a mainstream media source like the New York Times or The View have the cojones to say that.
Hatred and evil. There it is – the truth about the enemies the West faces today, both internal and external. They are driven by a demonic – and I use that word intentionally and literally – lust for chaos, a hatred for civilizational order, beauty, and truth. Some have deluded themselves into believing that their motives are righteous and well-intentioned, and will lead to utopian equity; some believe fervently that their “god is greater” and that the world must be brought under theocratic rule by any means necessary; some simply want to watch the world burn. The result is the same: wanton, gleeful destruction of the only true civilization the world has known; mass misery and death; and a nightmarish landscape of terror and torment that rivals any hellish vision by Hieronymus Bosch.
The result, in other words, is evil.
What is evil? Christian theologians such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Boethius have agreed that evil has no nature of its own; it is an absence of good, a willful turning away from God. It is a shadow, parasitic of light. In practice, this means profound cruelty, man’s inhumanity to man, a metaphysical malevolence so dark and bottomless that ordinary people shrink from it in horror.
To be clear: evil is hardly the sole domain of one side of the political fence. It can inhabit individuals of any color, sex, political persuasion, or religious belief. As Solzhenitsyn once put it, the line between good and evil runs straight through every human heart. And psychologists may prefer less highly-charged terms to describe people who commit unconscionable acts, but evil is as evil does.
If you were and are one of the useful idiots worldwide who marched and protested and rioted in support of Hamas in the wake of that October slaughter, calling for the eradication of Israel “from the river to the sea” and defiantly chanting, “You don’t get to choose how we resist,” then you were and are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil.
If you are in a position of political authority and facilitate the Islamization of society while repressing and demonizing law-abiding citizens who object to being subjected to a two-tier system of justice and demographic replacement, then you are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil.
If you are law enforcement arresting random street preachers or people who are praying silently in the vicinity of an abortion clinic, while you protect mobs of fighting-age Muslim males who take over public squares and streets to pray in displays of supremacist dominance, then you are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil.
If you celebrate the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, cackle about making a meme of it, crack sick jokes about it among your celebrity friends, and exploit it as a conspiracy theory for social media clout, then you are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil.
If you openly lament multiple failed assassination attempts against the United States President, wish for assassins with better aim, and fantasize about persecuting your political opponents once you seize power again, then you are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil. The same applies if you hail as a folk hero a man who shot a healthcare CEO in the back because his ideology dehumanized the victim.
If you believe that people with disordered sexual desires should be allowed to purchase children to show off as little triumphs in their war on the family, or you believe it’s acceptable for doctors to medically mutilate children who were indoctrinated by adults trying to subvert the natural order, or if you believe unborn children are simply dispensable clumps of cells that you can discard when inconvenient, then you are an enemy of civilization and complicit in evil.
These are just a handful of ways in which civilizational hatred and evil are manifesting themselves in our time.
The conflict in which we are engaged today is not merely political, nor cultural, nor legal, though all those are important arenas in which the battle is being waged. At its heart, the conflict is one of spiritual warfare. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,” to cite Ephesians 6, “but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Recognizing this is necessary for understanding that, as the Daily Mail noted, we are not pitted only in a struggle over history or land or political office or economic issues, but in an existential struggle with evil.
It is necessary for understanding with whom it is we are at war, how to fight, and what the consequences will be for losing or surrendering.
So put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to withstand evil in our day, and having given the fight your all, to stand against evil and prevail.
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Illustration: “The Harrowing of Hell” by Hieronymus Bosch.
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