Who is “they”? We have this magical “they” out there we blame for everything. If we can slay the “they” we’ll make things right again. Well, no. We won’t. If you are a Christian, you know:

  1. The battle is spiritual, not physical. Our enemy isn’t other people. The only beings who have been planning something for a long time are spiritual beings, not “they.”

  2. We’re in a fallen world and that means things are broken across the board.

  3. We give way too much credit to this magical “they” for all the incredibly evil things “they” do when the reality is that people tend to bumbling fools and the complexities we think they’ve woven ought to be pointing us to spiritual truths (God is in charge, he tells us what will happen in his Word, he said things would wind down someday, our real home is with him, not here) instead of pointing to these pointless battles against flesh and blood. It’s almost insulting to God, really, that we attribute all of this to human beings creating elaborate plans to destroy the world when He says its something and someone else entirely.

  4. The lie the devil told Adam and Eve was that if they ate the fruit, they would be “awakened.” That’s the same lie I’m seeing used today to get people to shift their eyes from the spiritual truth of what’s going on and put their eyes on other battles and targets (“they”).

Additionally, it is logical to understand that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is at work in this physical realm, i.e. things are on a path to breaking down, not getting better. Our bodies, our genetics with each passing generation—all weakening. This is a feature, not a bug, in a fallen world. It’s why Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden. Fallen beings have no business wanting to live forever in fallen bodies. They couldn’t have access to the Tree of Life once they were fallen. We don’t see that tree mentioned again in the Bible until it’s all said and done at the end of it, when the fallen world is done away with.

Now, you might not be a Christian, so I understand, then, your fixation with this vague evil cadre of “they.” Of course you would think your enemy was people, instead of spiritual. Of course you would think the battle is something we do with our own power instead of prayer and through God. But this comment thread is supposedly attached to an account by a “Christian Man” and so that’s where I make some assumptions about his readership.

For the record, I neither agree with your thesis that most of the things I mentioned were created with the purpose to destroy people, nor do I agree with the idea that a cohesive group of “they” was behind, for example, iodizing salt and creating Malt-O-Meal cereal in hopes of killing humanity.

Being “awakened” too often means falling for another deception. In the past several years, folks who are proud to be awake tend to have forgotten the battle is spiritual. That’s not awake. That’s just the same deception, side B.

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