The Latest Manifestation of the Sinfulness of Man

There are so many disturbing aspects of the “occupy” movement that it’s difficult to catalog them all. At its root is the desire to get something for nothing, a malady born out of an entitlement mentality that we have nurtured in our society. Where will it end?

That mentality is central to the greatest heresy of the twentieth century, one that ultimately led to the deaths of more than thirty million in the Soviet Union, even more in China, and also in smaller nations such as Cambodia, North Korea, and Cuba. We’re now seeing it at work in Venezuela. It doesn’t always begin as a full-blown radicalism, but it eventually descends to that low level.

I like to teach history because I believe we can see what went wrong in the past and avoid repeating those mistakes. At least, that is my hope. There certainly are enough object lessons from which we can gain wisdom.

The problem, of course, is that most of us are not wise. We too often reject sound knowledge and understanding. The result is to walk in darkness. Why is this? My authority for understanding why this is the case states it this way:

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. We seek scapegoats. We want to believe that “others” cause all our problems, yet the biggest problem is what we see in the mirror. The “occupy” movement is simply the latest manifestation of the sinfulness of man.