Why Young Americans Are Not Taught about Evil HotAir

Why don t students know about evil?

The first reason is that nearly all the genocides of the 20th century were committed by communists, and the Left, which runs virtually all educational institutions, has always had a soft spot for communism. If people were to recognize that communism has been the greatest source of evil in the modern age in terms of numbers murdered, number of lives destroyed, liberty stolen, and the sheer amount of human suffering inflicted (greater by those metrics than those of the Nazis before they were forcibly stopped), the Left would lose much of its appeal.

Another reason is the foolish notion that people are basically good. This has been a left-wing belief since the French Enlightenment leader Jean-Jacques Rousseau came up with the idea. As he wrote in his book, On Philosophy, Morality, and Religion, Man is a naturally good being, loving justice and order; there is no natural perversity in the human heart& All the vices imputed to the human heart are not natural to it.

This nonsense had been foreign to the Western mind. Its view of humanity was rooted in the Bible, and neither Bible-based religion Judaism or Christianity affirmed the goodness of the human heart. As Genesis states, The will of man s heart is evil from his youth, and the rest of the Bible repeatedly warns us against following our hearts.

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Denis Prager.

The arc of history is long, and it bends, and it bends and eventually falls over. That how it goes, right?