The Folly of Evil
Evil can be summed up as follows:
1. Scheme and plot from your selfish ambition
2. Commit the evil, the harming of something more innocent than yourself, imagining that you benefit in the process
3. Try to avoid the consequences for what you just did
Evil people are at war against God and reality. They are delusional because they are fiercely committed to imagining they can avoid consequences for their deeds. Now an evil person may or may not be practicing any form of magic or divination, but in official magic systems, they do recognize that consequences are a major problem and so there are specific spells/rituals for putting the negative consequences (karma?) for what you just did onto an innocent victim, thus doing yet another evil deed. Trying to displace the consequences off of yourself. That makes you no longer proactive in your own life, but utterly reactive. That is the opposite of empowered.
This is because the more evil you commit, the more you become obsessed with not suffering the consequences for it! And these karma displacement spells/rituals do work to some degree in the short term, but God is never fooled and they are only amassing more judgment upon themselves.
Thus, while there might be some dark glee in the plotting and the committing phases, all too quickly the gilt and fear pile up, forcing the practitioner to compensate — to dull their own heart and conscience, becoming more and more psychopathic. That is not freedom or power or getting ahead; that is bondage. That is called abusing and destroying your own heart/soul. You might as well be literally choking yourself.
Evil is both self-degrading and self-contradictory. Someone willing to hurt, manipulate or take advantage of others, becomes more and more heartless, meaning that whatever benefits they seem to reap, they are occurring in a world context that is more and more dark and dead. That is the opposite of “winning”.
As part of the consequence avoidance bondage coming over evil people, they employ a handful of very predictable and boring tactics, bouncing from one tactic to the next like a pinball in a game:
• Denial: I did nothing wrong
• Blame the Victim: I did it because you deserved it or you made me do it.
• Minimization: it was no big deal
• Justification and Rationalization: it is OK, or I had to because of such and such..
As well as all the tactics that narcissists are well-known for:
• Gas Lighting: no, I never harmed you. You’re the one who’s wrong. Basically projecting their own denial onto the victim.
• Triangulation: turning your own social circles — family and friends against you and loyal to the abuser
• Hoovering: sucking you back in to continue to be abused
At the core of all these strategies is a lie — a warping of the reality. These pet strategies come to encapsulate and define the evil person. They have taken over like weeds and choking vines around their heart. The above strategies come to encapsulate and define their world. They are less and less free, less and less self-expressed, and more and more bound by running away from consequences. That is not being valiant, heroic, or courageous. That is not vibrant, grateful and compassionate. That is more cold, calculating and dead, making them self-defeating strategies.
At this point, a 5 year old, with even minimal awareness would easily conclude that their life is a mess, that none of this is working, and that big change is called for. But that rarely happens because, at this point, more and more demons dog-pile onto the person, luring them into more pride and delusion, causing them to double-down on these negative strategies of consequence avoidance. The results is almost always an accelerated nose dive into self-hatred and suicide.
Jesus of Nazareth is greater than all the evil they did, than every awful and broken decision and actions they have made. If they don’t respond to Jesus’ interventions to jump-start their heart and face the reality, then they are doomed. Jesus IS truth, so responding to Jesus always includes being very honest about who you are, what you have done, and the wickedness you’ve been participating in. If you keep on with denial and pride, you’re forever dead. If you admit your need to be saved from this NOSEDIVE, then cry out to Jesus. You need His heart and His LIFE to replace your selfish and dead heart. The good news is that He is faithful to meet you at your point of need, when you get completely honest with Him.
