Pagans Reject the Idea of Evil-- (Starhawk)

[icymist]

Pagans Reject the Idea of Evil--
How Do We Respond to Terrorism?

We have nature as our teacher, and a set of rough ethics that value life, balance, and interconnection.

After the terrorist bombings in London that ripped apart a bus and several tube stations and killed more than 50 people, British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared the need to wipe out the "ideology of evil" that the bombs represented.

Evil is a construct Pagans try to avoid. Our theology, or rather, thealogy, (Goddess-knowing) teaches us that dark and light, life and death, creation and destruction exist in balance, and to cut off or condemn one aspect opens us to the imbalance that leads to cruelty and horror. We might say that the simplistic formulation, "They are evil; we are good" leads to its corollary, "We are justified in destroying them by any means whatsoever." And that is the very ideology that motivates the bombers, as well, and which throughout human history has led to the worst atrocities.

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[Ilsa]

1. Thank you for this post.

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