If you chase demons where demons don't exist, you chase ghosts. I have considered America, and the hatred of Hillary Clinton and of Barack Obama. I have considered on how George Soros is said to be the Anti-Christ.
I called up a video of Soros. Watched it. Was convinced he is someone who seeks good. Let him be an atheist or agnostic -- that does not make him evil. I read of his creating the Open Societies Foundations and how those foundations oppose authoritarian government. I consider this a better life's cause than what most of the rest of us have.
And, in a man like this, we find our Anti-Christ? If we chase him as the Anti-Christ, we chase a ghost. If we disagree with him for funding marijuana initiatives, that's fine -- that's living in reality -- but, if we suggest he is the Anti-Christ?
I must wondered at such myths of hatred, and how society arrives at them. How can we believe such -- well -- nonsense?
Consider this: If we knew a person who looked into the shadows of the night and saw monsters coming after him, would we want that person for our next president or congress member? Well, if we see Soros as the Anti-Christ, we are seeing a ghost, we are seeing a monster where a monster doesn't exist.
One, we are falsely judging another person. Two, we are bearing false witness. Three, if we pass along such a belief and persuade others it is true, we are helping drive this nation insane.
Insanity can exist as much in a nation as it can in a person. If a nation believes in ghosts, why is that not insanity?
And, if it believes in things that are unreal, it will govern out of a fear for them. Its monsters will dictate its policies. It will govern out of a sense of fear. Just as a child afraid of the dark reacts to those fears, so will a government afraid of a different type of ghosts run from them.
Remember the days of burning witches at the stake? I do not know whether some of them were actual ghosts, but I am certain there were some witches who were harmless and were burned in vain.
The society that burned them was a society insane. So, yes, I would suggest communities and nations can go insane, same as individuals. The witch-burning community looked into the shadows and saw monsters and ghosts. It governed out of a sense of fear, fear of its monsters and ghosts, and got rid of them.
I will wonder at America. I will wonder if it hasn't become such a nation. Look down at our southern border. Look at the poor and impoverished coming from Central America. We look into the dark of the border, into the shadows of night, and we see ISIS and monsters.
Now, I do not know but what some of those coming from Central America will surely turn out to be criminals. Indeed, to suppose thousands would come and none be a criminal is a little much. But, to look into the faces of all these common poor people, fleeing from bad situations in life and see only ISIS and MS-13ers?
That's to see monsters and ghosts.
President Trump has made much of the investigation against him being a witch hunt. I cannot but think of how in the early colonization of America, we got rid of some people because they were witches and warlocks.
A witch hunt? Where, then? Is it down on our southern border? Think of the early days in our colonization, and how we got rid of people accused of being witches and warlocks. Today, we get rid of people accused of being ISIS and MS-13. Where is the witch hunt today?
Just as those colonizers governed out of a sense of fear -- fear of witches and warlocks -- so we are governing out of a fear for those who are immigrants.
If it is ghosts who chase you, it will be ghosts you run from.
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