False Choices
“The fracture lines in the mind run in every direction, but they have their roots in the heart. Do you see what Satan has done to all of us? Whenever he cannot entice us into direct evil, he will try to allure us into passive evil. No, that is not the exact word—I should say that he always seeks to deceive men of good will by offering them what appears to be a lesser evil.”
“You mean he offers them a terrible evil on one hand and an apparently small evil on the other?”
“Yes. This is his great subtlety with us. He has observed us for millennia. The devil is an outstanding psychologist.”
“So we choose the lesser evil, thinking we have been saved from the great evil, when all the while his real purpose was to bring about the evil we have chosen.”
. . .“He wishes to infect everything, every particle of creation, with compromise. If he cannot entice a man into participating directly in his Great Revolt, he will work to infect him with its lesser attributes.”
“And does so by presenting us with false choices.”
~Michael O'Brien (from The Father's Tale)
“You mean he offers them a terrible evil on one hand and an apparently small evil on the other?”
“Yes. This is his great subtlety with us. He has observed us for millennia. The devil is an outstanding psychologist.”
“So we choose the lesser evil, thinking we have been saved from the great evil, when all the while his real purpose was to bring about the evil we have chosen.”
. . .“He wishes to infect everything, every particle of creation, with compromise. If he cannot entice a man into participating directly in his Great Revolt, he will work to infect him with its lesser attributes.”
“And does so by presenting us with false choices.”
~Michael O'Brien (from The Father's Tale)
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