Reconciliation

Within the last couple of days, I've encountered two events that I found very disturbing. Not disturbing in some abstract sense, but unnerving in a primal, visceral manner.

The first was my partial viewing of "Schindler's List." As close as any artistic endeavor can, "Schindler's List" manages to draw you into a world of pure evil. One in which the disenfranchised become commodities and are relegated to some genetic limbo below that of homosapiens. Jew, Ukranian, homosexual, gypsy, dissident, crippled, insane, orphan. Each consumed.

The second was the reading of a journal of a woman with multiple personality disorder (MDA). A horrifying story! Her history is an apparation of unbridled evil.

I found these accounts almost overwhelming. And I began to wonder if it were possible to find some type of redemption here. Some form of reconciliation. There is a mystical belief among many religions that at any one point, the world contains a certain number of righteous individuals. These persons are unnoticed but surface in times of peril to combat evil forces. Schindler did this with his list; the person with MDA does it with her website.

There is a argument that states that the believer in a diety must account for one thing, the existence of evil; the nonbeliever, however, must account for everything else.

PAX!