The Audacity of Evil

I once had a friend who was a devoted Christian with aspirations of becoming a missionary. In the early hours of the morning, he would passionately implore God to grant him the opportunity to influence nations and to bestow upon him the ability to bring divine grace to the world. His exact prayer was Give me the nations and the affirmation was ‘I cover the Earth with the Gospel’. Personally, I have always viewed these proclamations as somewhat unrealistic affirmations, where individuals strive to believe themselves into an idealistic reality without putting in the necessary effort. The notion that God should send someone to a foreign land to "spread the gospel" while they remain oblivious to the A-Z of nation-building within their own country is precisely why their influence remains limited and fails to extend beyond their immediate surroundings.

Goodness, and her soldiers, believe that goodwill, faith, and hope, will help them achieve the impossible. These concepts serve as symbolic representations of the abstract ideals that the human mind gravitates towards, providing a sense of assurance that the pursuit of goodness is a formidable undertaking that can only be accomplished through divine intervention. The dependence on Grace and similar concepts in that villa is Goodness' over-complication of its ministry. It’s a giving-up before the task begins, an acquiescence to failure even before it rears its head.

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