The Satanic Trap: “Well, if I don’t do it, somebody else will”
Resistance may be futile, but also the path to Redemption
It’s easy to imagine Beltway reporters commiserating over cocktails, bonding within their journalist “profession” (it is no more), by sharing unreported truths and D.C. gossip amongst themselves. And laughing at that portion of the public – the Progressives and “normies” – that gullibly accept “as truth” the untruths and “lies by omission” that they convey on behalf of their corporate and political masters.
It’s also easy to imagine that, at times, a few of them experience a twinge of conscience regarding their abrogation of professional ethics, or even common decency. But this is suppressed and kept within, lest uttering anything about it result in banishment from the group … and perhaps a report to superiors, resulting in unemployment.
Likewise, it’s also easy to imagine that many assuage their guilt with the rationalization(s) along the lines of: “Well, if I don’t do it, they’ll just replace me with someone who will. So I might as well keep my job. I have a family to support.”
Not to mention the classic rationalization for diverting responsibility: “I was only following orders.”
Rationalizations such as this have occurred throughout history – prison guards in Gulags and concentration camps; likely even among some of the Roman soldiers charged with performing crucifixions.
We see such rationalizations today not just in corrupted journalism, but within all of our corrupted institutions. “Exhibit A’s” could be the personnel inhabiting U.S. Department of Justice and FBI — institutions corrupt to the core (arguably even engaged in treason, see, e.g., “Russiagate”).
Secretary of State offices in several states, engaged in willful and systemic election fraud. “Educators” working diligently not only to dumb-down entire generations, but now to groom children toward deviant forms of sexuality.
Ye the personnel say to themselves mantras along the lines of: “Resistance is futile … they’ll replace me with someone else who will do it … what can I do?”
On a secular basis, such “going along to get along” is often the rational, logical answer.
But what is the rational, logical answer when analyzed on an eternal basis?
David fought Goliath, and prevailed … but who observing beforehand would have concluded but that he was doomed, that resistance was futile?
Daniel survived the lion’s den.
Yet, other Christians became martyrs to Roman lions.
An essence of faith is adhering to it, and practicing it. Even when the secular outcome is uncertain … and especially when adherence seems to be an exercise in futility.
This country, and the world at large, is very much engaged in a spiritual battle — one that is escalating. Good vs. Evil on Biblical scale, if not as prophesied in the Bible.
Choose your side. There are only two. Facilitating evil, actively, or by merely standing aside and passively watching it advance, are both a form of choosing the side of evil.
This notwithstanding attempting to rationalize that choice away with “if I don’t do it, somebody else will.” That is a Satanic trap intended to lure you into forfeiting your eternal soul.
Repentance can still be had, e.g., by becoming a whistleblower. Or otherwise resisting the evil forces currently on the march, even though they are feeling emboldened, and are conveying invincibility.
In the years immediately ahead, they may well be invincible. Or they may fall like Goliath. But whatever the near and intermediate-term outcome, they will not prove invincible before God, and will fall within His timeline.
You own your eternity; you are the captain of your eternal fate. Act accordingly.