Nothing in or out of the World is All Good or All Bad, All Gods Included

Abstract

Only our human desire to have models of perfection causes us to keep trying to make our idols out to be pure. “If wishes were horses….” Certainly the history of, plus the present escalation in, terror and human destruction gives us no factual bases for postulating that our current favorites (whether people or theories) are, “at long last,” free of error, sin, and corruption.

The good Lord blessed me that way, but he put sorrow in my heart to pay for it. It looks like a good thing and a bad thing always have to go hand-in-hand. You don’t get the one without the other, ever.

Erskin Caldwell, God’s Little Acre