What is it about people that divides them to such an extent that they come to
hate one another? They will kill one another out of some kind of disagreement
over principles, money, passion; and they do so without mercy and without
end. I'm sure that if the United States had not intervened in Bosnia,
genocide would have ruled the day without letup.
What is it about Hitler Germany and Jews and Catholics and Protestants, the
Hutus and Tutsis, the communist government and the black Christian population
in the Sudan? What is this plague that has been going on for thousands of
years? Why do people do these things to each other? Is there no end to war?
To divorce? It appears that the motivating principle behind war and mayhem
and slaughter is identical to the one behind the never-ending battle of the
sexes, the enmity between men and women that so often ends in divorce. It
manifests itself in many forms and in many arenas, but we see it at its most
naked worst in what divides the man from the woman and the woman from the man
in the ancient enmity that exists between the sexes. This we must understand
because here lies the root of everything that is wrong with the world.
What is this? You won't like what I'm about to tell you. I've told you
before, before before, and even before that, and you can't hear it. There is
an issue here, a good and evil issue. There's no question about it. Now, what
is this evil? Are women evil? Are men evil? No! Men can't be evil, women
can't be evil, people can't be evil. Evil is a spirit. We can't even be good
because good is a spirit. We are chess pieces on the chessboard of life, and
we choose our allegiances in accordance with something extremely subtle. The
Bible has been trying to tell us that for an extremely long time. Let me say
this: there are people who can hear and understand what I am about to tell
you and through that understanding change sides.
In other words, you have evil acting through whatever is open to evil, and
some people are change agents for this invisible, un-smellable, un-detectable
force. They refuse to see, you cannot make them, even through torture, admit
their allegiance to evil. They are devoted to the evil master they don't see
as an evil master, but perhaps it functions covertly as the representative of
evil in someone they can elect as a dictator, a president, a drug pusher, or
a spouse. They don't see the drug pusher or their "fiend" friends, their peer
pressure, the order, the smelly order of Hell on this earth--they don't see
this as it is. They see their allegiance as devotion, and they are devoted to
their drink, their drugs, their crime, their criminal conspiracies, the
Mafia, their evil empires. They are devoted to those comforters with as much
devotion as you and I, God willing, can be devoted to good.
But where you can find that war germinating and spreading is in the family,
between men and women. All politics comes from that, and it is called the
Left and the Right today (in Babylonian times it might have been called
Philistines and Israelites), Protestants and Catholics, liberals and
conservatives even in the same religion, all adversaries of one another.
People are always fighting people: Germans against the English, Arabs against
Jews, Tutsis against Hutus. Ladies and gentlemen, it's without end: the
slaughter, the suffering, the war, the mayhem. But look at our home life.
Look at the divorce rate and see the enmity that propels it spreading like a
malignant disease. Whenever you bring man and woman together you have an
undeclared war. That's the danger of it. It begins with undeclared war. You
don't know you're at war; you think you have a friend. But then you find out
that your friend is not a friend, but a fiend. Of course they don't see
themselves as fiends, but you find out that they are stealing from you,
cheating on you, lying to you, using you. You stand up and say "You can't do
this," and all of a sudden you realize you are in a war--you've been sleeping
with the enemy.
Why is this? You don't have to look very far for the answer, not if you have
any brains, because it is explained in the first chapter of Genesis. There is
an enmity between man and woman, his seed and her seed. In a family that is
not God-centered--forgive me, don't faint because I bring God into it; it's
about time we did, but in a way that leads to understanding--there is no
divine order as it existed in the beginning. Human beings are not animals all
the way through. We have something in us, something good in us, or at the
very least we have an inclination toward good that invites good to us. It
waits upon us, as does evil, when we come into the world. Deuteronomy says
so. When we are born, something good and/or something evil crouches on our
doorstep. Choose between them if you can.
The trouble is that you can't choose. You are born subject to temptation
because of your lineage--in religious parlance, original sin, and the horror
of it passes from one generation to the next. In other words, you are born
choiceless. You are subject to a condition already set in motion. Women don't
bring up their kids properly, both fathers and mothers mistreat their
children and they can't stop what they have set in motion. They can't stop
the good, and neither can they stop the evil that they have set in motion. It
goes on from generation to generation, multiplying itself and becoming more
sophisticated with each succeeding generation, and sprouting political
parties. This division between good and evil is man/woman based wherever the
love of God has grown cold.
You have heard me discuss it before. There is something about women. What did
Freud say? "What does a woman want?" That's what he said, and he was a
psychiatrist, a psychologist. Does anyone know what a woman wants? She
herself doesn't even know what she wants. You can't put your finger on it.
I'll tell you what she wants, what she needs, that is, and whether or not she
wants it depends on her love of the good, both in herself and in her man.
That good in herself causes her to yearn to find the good in a man and mate
with that good to bring forth beautiful children in a heaven-on-earth
relationship. When a woman is insecure, unwashed, her inclination is in the
opposite direction. She hates men. Why? Her father failed her. Why? Her
mother was not looking for the good in a man because she was jealous of man's
superiority. Do you not like that word "superiority." I can almost hear some
of you screaming "male chauvinist pig" at me. But men have a role, and it is
leadership. Then there is followership. There should be nothing wrong with
the roles were it not for ego. The ego wants to be worshiped; it will serve
only for its own benefit, not out of purity and love for the person it
serves. It serves rather to weaken, enslave, and enable the wrong in a man.
It serves in order to rule.
You see this in politics. As a result of several generations of welfare, we
have more poverty, more misery, more crime, and more horror than ever existed
before, thanks to that kind of enabling, that kind of nurturing. Women imbued
with that same need to be needed are proud of their disgusting form of love.
They think they are the cat's meow and they think they know how to love. Of
course, there is love in truth, and shades of love and mercy even in the
rules and laws and regulations. But we shouldn't need all those rules and
regulations, because a person who has love knows what truth is and that you
can't truly love without truth. Can you?
Yes, alas, you can. You can love without truth, and you can have truth
without love, and in the divided state, the fallen state we have been born
into, men, by virtue of their manliness, still have a nagging sense of
justice and a sense of truth that is direct from God, received intuitively in
the way Adam received his instruction not to eat of the ego tree, the
knowledge of good and evil. Perhaps Adam should have resisted the impulse to
become as a god rather than to love and obey the God who created him, but he
made the choice that amounts to a choice between good and evil, and so did
Eve, out of the same ambition to break free of the overshadowing presence and
take charge, rule as a god.
Perhaps a humanist would believe that the impulse to become as a god should
not have existed, but it did. The choice between loving God and being god is
a choice between good and evil, and it's equally present in Eve: the female
ambition to rule, to control and not be controlled in subjection to tyranny.
But in those days there was no tyranny; there were only two people, Tyranny
begins with the approach of evil, saying "God lies--you won't die if you eat
that fruit, but you will become like a god. If you get your man to eat this,"
the serpent continued "he will fall and you will rule him." Thus Eve became
the first fallen person, mother of the first ego. It's the fall from grace
that separates man's knowing from right to wrong and from love to the use of
wrong for his ego's sake.
Most conservatives with very few exceptions, although they have truth in that
they know the commandments and the words of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha--they
have it all in their brains and they know when they've done wrong because
they feel guilty even when they can't pinpoint the reason, but they still
lack love. They have no adherence, no soul-deep allegiance to that which is
worthy of love. They impose their order, their truth, with no love because
truth and love are divided within them. Women are nurturers; therefore, they
take the nurturing side of them and think that is truth. Love can also be
truth, and truth can also be love, but they are two components and they have
to be together. Liberals spring from the feminine bias in favor of love as a
gratification of need.
A centrist, a person who has both love and truth, has compassion for the
nurturing of a beautiful woman along with the strength of a noble man. He has
both. And a woman appreciates both because she loves truth, she loves
goodness, and she loves the integrity of a man who has not fallen to her
testing and separated himself from love. His love survives the temptation to
use, and she can respect him.
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