{"id":8227,"date":"2026-10-11T10:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:07:17","slug":"diversity-to-empathy-to-inclusion-to-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"DIVERSITY to EMPATHY to INCLUSION to EVIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sounds attractive, all over again, today.<br>Like it sounded attractive to Eve, and she was deceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Evil triumphs when good men do nothing in the face of evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam, a good man, a perfect man, until &#8220;he did nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evil triumphed when that good man did nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eve was deceived.<br>Adam knew better.<br>Adam had a very brief window to act.<br>Also, a VERY BRIEF window to act today&#8212;one graphic example:<br>&#8220;The only thing to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Adam did nothing.<br>Adam ate.<br>Consequences, for Adam, for Eve, for everyone, for 6000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds attractive, all over again, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inevitable results, happening now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D+EVIL=DEVIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;D&#8221;oing nothing about &#8220;EVIL&#8221; is from the &#8220;DEVIL&#8221;, as well as the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(repeats intentional)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds attractive, all over again, today.Like it sounded attractive to Eve, and she was deceived. &#8220;Evil triumphs when good men do nothing in the face of evil.&#8221; Adam, a good man, a perfect man, until &#8220;he did nothing&#8221;. Evil triumphed when that good man did nothing. Eve was deceived.Adam knew better.Adam had a very brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8228,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions\/8228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}