The Death of Osama and/or Evil

I wanted to clarify a few thoughts I shared yesterday. I want to be clear that I know that the crimes against humanity committed by Bin Laden were horrific. I also am thankful for the Men and women who risked their lives to bring him to justice. This kind of evil either personified in a person or group, should not be tolerated in any way. However, I think that any kind of situation that forces men and women to have to risk their lives and or forces them to have to take the life of another, no matter how justified or noble is a sad and I look forward to a day when humankind will evolve to the place where we will not commit such horrific crimes against each-other like Bin Laden is guilty of.

With that said, I do not celebrate death but rather I rejoice when a life is saved. I do rejoice for the lives he can no longer destroy. I hope those who have been victims of his evil have some closure, and a sense of justice.

What I think would be a more appropriate response is a sense of justice tempered with a prayer for peace and unity for all of humankind. A recognition that anyone's cause or ideals can cross the line and begin to serve evil. We are all able to justify and believe we are on the side of right. When our actions may prove to be a lot less noble to those we hurt and victimize. No religion, nation or race is exempt. Only God is pure Love, and we must recognize that we are a "little lower" than God because we are human and Spirit. May we allow our Spirit/heart which is united in the divine to direct us, instead of our humanness which is easily mislead by our ego or baser nature.

Great Evil, like Bin Laden, Hitler and the like are a result of those lives that are surrendered completely over to the ego. They gave themselves fully over to such deluded beliefs that resulted in the collimation of great evil. But many times great evil begins with simple benign thoughts, which seem justified in certain circumstances. If these thoughts are not surrendered to God and corrected by truth they become malignant.

If such evil is possible from lives surrendered to pure ego, how much greater can Love impact this world when a life is regularly surrendered to Spirit.

Peace to you in Christ