I enjoy Agatha Christie’s novels, and especially I enjoy her rendition of Jane Marple, as an amateur detective of Christian, Victorian moral sensibility, especially concerning human nature: first, that all share an essential or universal human nature, and that we enjoy free will at the same time; second, we are born depraved but are born good enough to overcome our wicked natures if we work hard and seek God’s freely offered grace, forgiveness and guidance by sending messages subconsciously to surface as whispered guidelines in each of us for choice and action as we proceed. These messages from God surface—if we are sensitive to and wish to receive and decipher them--in our consciences to suggest how we decide to react and act to various impulses and temptations welling up within us, and to know how to resist those socially offered temptations set before us by other groupist sinners; third, we are called by God to be good, but it is not enough to be good, we must also seek out, identify, understanding the inner workings of evildoers’ undertakings, and then to publicly, actively fight evil with our whole heart and our whole souls.
The children of light are called to fight evil and evildoers as one of the main justifications and foci of each human existence. Soldiers of God fighting the good fight need not only the intelligence, willingness and commitment to fight evil, they must also be cunning, strong and skilled in all ways, including martial arts training, and adept skill in wielding firearms, so that thugs and criminals cannot violently suppress them. One must not be gentle and nonviolent against violent aggressors in this world.
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