I took Thursday off to make a long Easter weekend, and since I always try and have a good book in progress, I went to the library in search of same. I came away with a copy of Unspeakable - Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror, by Os Guinness.
Guinness is a graduate of Oxford and has an intellect that can only be described as superior. Raised in China by his medical missionary parents, they fled the genocide of Mao's Cultural Revolution, to which Guinness lost two beloved brothers. When he writes of terror and genocide, he does so from personal experience. This book was written in the immediate aftermath of September 11th, and its premise is a wholistic look at what proper views of and reactions to evil might be.
Here is a small taste:
"It is our responsibility and our right to come to our own conclusions and form our own convictions. But the right to believe anything does not mean that anything one believes is right. The former is freedom of conscience and must always be respected. The latter idea is nonsense and must often be opposed".
That's good stuff, and I'll enjoy reading it over the Easter weekend. And speaking of Easter, the real purpose of this brief post was to wish you and yours a joyous one!!
Unde Malum - Unde Bene, translated literally from the Latin, means "whence cometh evil - whence cometh good"?
