Doing What Is Right

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle, and on Page 7 every Wednesday, they publish a homily, which I copy and then respond too. The one from 10/30/24 was entitled, Be The Exception.

 

Homily: “Today’s headlines are full of people being caught and prosecuted for crimes of all kinds. Isn’t anyone playing it straight anymore? “

 

My response: People are born evil more than good, and the Devil rules this world, and we practice evil altruist-collectivist morality, and we group-live and live nonindividuated lives, both of which ratchet up our state of psychic, inner misery, heightening the evil in us, our self-loathing our lack of veridical self-esteem.

 

Considering all of these worldly and biological, negative inputs, it is a miracle that people are as just, kind and civilized as they are, that at least a minority of people still play it straight.

 

Homily: “God’s people should be different.”

 

My response: When we teach people that altruism and low self-esteem are noble, ethical ideals, we just taught people to lead evil lives, we reward them for leading evil lives, and we have convinced them that they are not leading evil lives.

 

Though all have some natural modicum of conscience and free will, so on some level--until willful blindness tamps these noble impulses down—that hints to them that they should be moral and play it straight, seeking after God, the worldly and group associations they are embedded in soon shout down these internal, shy suggestions to the self.

 

God’s children should be different, but most people are not God’s children—born as God’s children but not living as God’s children—despite their Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist professions of faith, most people are the Devil’s children due to their living in accordance with the immoral ethical code, altruism-collectivism.

 

Homily: We ought to be outstanding witnesses for God.”

 

My response: If we knew God and practiced a moral ethical code, egoism-individualism, most of us would be outstanding witnesses for God.

 

Homily: “Strengthen your ‘outstandingness’ this week in church.”

 

My response: Going to church will not sufficiently strengthen people’s virtuous outstandingness, unless they are trained to be rational egoists, not whimsical altruists. Going to church is better than not going to church, but moral standards and moral behavior there are too often scandalously low, because church is built on the premise of brotherhood, communal warmth, and group-thinking, group-living, and group-morality (altruism-collectivism). The Devil is the joiner and God is the loner or individualist. 

People should be taught to be egoists more than altruists, and engage in self-care more than other-care.

 

Homily: “Brothers and sisters do not be weary in doing what is right. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13.”

 

My response: Believers will weary much less if they were practicing egoist-individualist morality.