I've Been Cured, Praise God!!
Today I was in traffic school. Have you ever been to traffic school? I mean the physical classes and not the test you can take online. It's really like an AA meeting. It's mostly filled with minorities, but you have the one or two rich folks who are really pissed of that the hundred dollar bill they slipped the cop didn't get the charges dropped. You got the guy who's done the most outrageous things you can think of (the total addict and abuser), the people who are upset at everything including cops, laws, insurance companies and auto companies (these are the people who are in denial) and finally you have the reformed sinners who "know what they did was wrong and will never ever violate the law again."
I've found that people absolutely love reformed sinners. In fact, they even love sinners who are not reformed because then they can try to convert them. Work is needed. The converter has a job. This is how religions, governments, and rehabilitation clinics (whatever their purpose may be) stay in business. But the reformed sinner is special because they are the example, the finished product, the justification of the reformers work. For instance, Israel parades around Palestinians who have renounced terrorism all across the world to speak at schools and prisons about how they "found the error in their ways." But this paints an inaccurate picture of the situation. The reformed sinner is not the result of truth. In fact, they are most often the result of brainwashing. I'm not saying that there can't be a reformed sinner that truly believes what they're saying. But somehow I just find it hard to believe that an extremist can honestly renounce something that they once felt so passionate about and go the complete opposite way. What's to say that the new man isn’t just putting up a front or will revert back to his old ways? The only thing an extremist indicates to me is a weak and narrow mind that is susceptible to the next strong influence that happens to cross their path. There is no balance, nor independent contemplation. These people are mindless and, unfortunately, prevalent in today's society.
I've found that people absolutely love reformed sinners. In fact, they even love sinners who are not reformed because then they can try to convert them. Work is needed. The converter has a job. This is how religions, governments, and rehabilitation clinics (whatever their purpose may be) stay in business. But the reformed sinner is special because they are the example, the finished product, the justification of the reformers work. For instance, Israel parades around Palestinians who have renounced terrorism all across the world to speak at schools and prisons about how they "found the error in their ways." But this paints an inaccurate picture of the situation. The reformed sinner is not the result of truth. In fact, they are most often the result of brainwashing. I'm not saying that there can't be a reformed sinner that truly believes what they're saying. But somehow I just find it hard to believe that an extremist can honestly renounce something that they once felt so passionate about and go the complete opposite way. What's to say that the new man isn’t just putting up a front or will revert back to his old ways? The only thing an extremist indicates to me is a weak and narrow mind that is susceptible to the next strong influence that happens to cross their path. There is no balance, nor independent contemplation. These people are mindless and, unfortunately, prevalent in today's society.
posted by -R at 8:40 PM
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