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The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with
his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is
coming.
The world has always been a beautiful place. If you removed human beings, all the pollution and unnatural destruction would be completely gone in a few thousand years. We are here though, so those speculations are pointless. This essay isn't about anything as controversial as the contention that Earth must be saved from the likes of litterbugs and people who drive automobiles. It's about something much more intense and real. There is great evil in the world. For most of us, the greatest evil we ever experience is a broken bone or a cheating spouse. For some of the highly unfortunate, the evil they fall victim to stinks so horrendously that it extends all the way to a place we can't even reach. There are wicked human beings in the world who sink to the lowest depths of depravity for the sake of money. Kidnapping women, girls and boys to sell as sex slaves is not just a disturbing subject for movies like Trade or Taken; it actually happens. The victims number in the millions. In some countries, families are coerced into giving up their prepubescent daughters to avoid death or ruination by the twisted brutes who impose this upon them. And what about those who purchase and keep these human beings as sexual pets? Do these 'masters' deserve understanding or mercy? Do they deserve the mercy they have not shown to others? Do they actually imagine that treating their 'property' well will make a difference when their reckoning occurs? These things do happen. There are real human beings who are drugged, sold, raped, used, kept as sexual servants... and after possibly years of this irrevocable torture, they are permanently discarded. To put this in perspective, simply imagine your own daughter, sister, wife or girlfriend forced into this situation, and never seeing her again. That's not how the story ends, however. Whether it is today, or tomorrow, next week, next year, no matter; those who do such evil will be burned. Burned through and through, until all that is left is an unfortunate memory that will be forgotten in the shining light of love, truth and justice. For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. As some are quick to point out, this recompense will not repair or replace the lives destroyed. In the interest of waxing wise and temperate, these lukewarm Yodas prefer to remind us that 'revenge' is nothing more than a perpetuation of evil. But what I'm referring to is not the revenge of an angry man or allegedly malicious God. It is the inevitable machinery of a universe providing uncompromising balance that extends beyond our fragile blink-of-an-eye lives. The universe is the same as our planet. As Earth is a perfectly engineered, life-creating and life-sustaining biosphere, so the universe is alive and perpetual, with the perfect combination of mass, movement and gravity. One blade of grass moving in some deserted plain is as relevant as a distant supernova, and just as worthy of note. It staggers the imagination that some people actually think something as significant as the trafficking of non-consensual sex slaves will go unnoticed. As these kidnappers and sex traders continue in their disgusting daily activities, it surely must seem as proof positive to them that they will always escape any sort of retribution. Their money and their guns are firmly placed in their pockets. But the scales will not remain unbalanced, because the lives they willingly stole cannot be restored. The people I'm speaking of aren't merely sad, like burglars, swingers or alcoholics. The people I'm speaking of are the excessively wicked; those who willingly destroy the lives of others for personal gain. And make no mistake; they always have a choice, regardless of their personal history. Every single one of them, from the smallest to the greatest, is going to burn. |