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Rudolph Bush’s blog for the Dallas Morning News is so spot on it’s nearly impossible to improve on it.<\/p>\n

I won’t try here, except to add a point here and there.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/01\/evil-cannot-stand-to-be-mocked-so-lets-all-mock-it.html\/<\/p>\n

The assassins who opened fire on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris embody evil in its purist form. Bush’s point is that evil hates being mocked and he encourages good people around the world to mock whenever and wherever possible.<\/p>\n

I’m not inclined to “mock” evil. Instead, I prefer to call it what it is. “Evil” well could be the most descriptive four-letter word in the English language. So, let’s allow the word to stand on its own.<\/p>\n

Bush writes: “If we think about the good people we know, they\u2019re often lighthearted. They might lead serious lives, but they are quick to pull themselves down, often with a joke at their own expense. They don\u2019t burden others with their troubles. They don\u2019t blather on about their accomplishments or beliefs. Their lives are quiet examples.<\/p>\n

“Not so the evil. They can\u2019t stop jabbering on about their own goodness, or the goodness of their beliefs, or the goodness of their possessions, or on and on. It\u2019s a loud and energetic effort. The evil are often very busy people, and they would have us know it.”<\/p>\n

Charlie Hebdo had satirized the prophet Mohammed, enraging three Muslim cultists who opened fire on the magazine’s offices. One of them surrendered. Two others, brothers, are on the lam. French police essentially have locked down the nation and are dedicated to finding these individuals.<\/p>\n

I’ll leave the mocking to others. But let’s all be sure that we don’t cower in the face of those who terrorize others.\u00a0The world’s\u00a0“lighthearted good people” cannot let them declare victory.<\/p>\n

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Rudolph Bush’s blog for the Dallas Morning News is so spot on it’s nearly impossible to improve on it. I won’t try here, except to add a point here and there. http:\/\/dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com\/2015\/01\/evil-cannot-stand-to-be-mocked-so-lets-all-mock-it.html\/ The assassins who opened fire on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris embody evil in its purist form. Bush’s point is that evil … Continue reading Evil needs to be 'mocked'<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[929,1243,4040,4562],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-charlie-hebdo","tag-dallas-morning-news","tag-rudolph-bush","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}