The reasons for all the chaos in the world is due to complex environmental, political, social, and economic factors. Humans have lost their indigenous connections to the earth, healthy foods, and ar exposed constantly to thousands of dangerous chemicals in air, water, food, and even clothing daily. Fetus are poisoned in the womb with all the crappy processed junk food we eat.
People are economically stressed and parents both work to give their families everything they need. This leaves many children alone without proper role modeling, emotional security, and way too much time to go online.
People have more real addictions more then ever in history. This is not due to God, or Satan, but due to complex issues such as recurrent exposures, societal acceptances, ease of access, poor coping mechanisms, and genetic predisposals.
Humans have always fought over material possessions, spouses, and land. We are opportunistic, greedy, jealous, intelligent life forms. Social media in 21st Century encourages bullying, materialism, greed, capitalism, gossip, anger, and frustration. Observe any teenager, and see how they try to fit in according to the Kardashians, Paris Hilton, Beyoncé, or whomever is currently in fashion. Observe all the wants and “needs “ pushed on people to buy more things, consume ever more goods. We never have enough. This causes a lot of negative things in society. Maybe that is the “evil force” you speak of?
Our modern society squeezes us ever closer together in dense urban regions where there is lack of resources, lack of safety, and lack of the most basic necessities of food, safety, security, education, etc. Social issues and ongoing racism cause inner city crimes and gangs. Not God or Satan.
People cannot afford rent. Or food. Or clothings. Jobs do not pay us what we need to live healthy safe lives. Our governments cater to the top 5% and the rest, especially if poor be damned. This is not Satan, it’s not god, it’s government and corrupt politicians.
People keep procreating regardless of the planet’s over population. What the hell are they thinking? If one cannot afford to have children, why oh why would you bring a child into this world? So many children are abused, abandoned, raped, killed, starved. The survivors may grow up traumatized enough to go and proceed to do all the same bad things to others, or they may be so traumatized that they are mentally ill and have a hard time coping, are suicidal, take recreational drugs, become alcoholics, etc. this is not god or satan’s Doing but mankinds.
People judge each other extremely badly. The worst judges are the deeply religious. They hate anyone not following their rules. Anyone not heterosexual. Anyone choosing to end a pregnancy is going to “burn in hell.” All these beliefs of non acceptance is evil- and not “god.” It’s “evil” because some human says to hate people that are different, and outside the norm. Anyone spreading hate and judgements is evil, but it’s a human made “force.”
Religion can be “an evil force.” Religion along with race and culture (non acceptance of others) has caused more wars, death, and suffering than any other war, or issues in the history of mankind on this earth. It’s never ending, this warring over religious beliefs. The crusades were one. The Holocaust was not just about religion but so much more, too, but must be included here. None we have had modern day wars in the Middle East. The issues going on now over religions in Africa, Myanmar, the Taliban, etc are all man made issues using an artifice of religion. Religion is the evil force.
Why can’t humans get along? We have been killing each other and stealing each other’s possessions since the beginning. We kill and destroy and disrupt everything that lives on the earth. The Bible says that we are supposed to do that. Use everything for our benefit. We rape and pillage the environment and destroy the rain forests, and kill anything in our way, and it’s all in the Bible that we are allowed to do that. In the USA, the currant governmental head of the environment strongly believes in the Bible and very literally at that.
The Christian Bible is the basis of that “evil force” called “manifest destiny.” That’s basically when early Christianity went on to pillage and conquer others and take everything over. The basic of taking the land , water, and animals - and “using it for your benefit “is written in the Bible.
Then later on, white Brits, Dutch, French, Europeans, etc did that to India, American and South American Indigenous people, as well as the Africa and Australia. God supposedly made the land and all it’s resources and gave it to humans. “How could those silly stupid back words natives be sitting on all this rich land and not use it properly? “ was the thinking of the colonists, pillagers, slave owners, religioous zealots, and the new found governments who stole the lands, and all the resources. They continue to do so to this very day. The basis of this conquering and thievery is manifest destiny which can be attributed to the Christian Bible.
The “evil forces” are any strict literalism of ANY religious theology- be it Christianity, Muslim, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Mormonism, Christian Science, Scientology, and even Satanism (which is generally an artificial construct in an of itself). The literalism that corrupts basic moral rules to live by peacefully. Literal Interpretation of ancient texts, OR those written by leaders who have sociopathic or other mental illness tendencies is plain wrong . That is the “evil force.”
The literal acceptance of words written by one or more people a long time ago which want to ENFORCE strict doctrines and harsh judgements against others who step outside the realm of the rules is plain destructive in this world of over 7 billion people.
