Agents of Evil
“We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world, and spiritual agents from the very headquarters of evil.” Watchtower 04/01/1999
The John class today have also encouraged their companions, the great crowd, to beware of immoral influences, such as those in the debased world of entertainment. There is no need to view or experience corruption out of curiosity or in order to learn what to avoid. It is the course of wisdom to keep far away from the “deep things of Satan.” Revelation Climax chap. 10 p. 52 par. 16
I saw this movie in 1994. A couple of clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rrDsv8HiCyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMNExagZVrc
When I saw this, it disturbed me and stood out in my mind as an incarnate of a demon right out of the Bible. An inhumane, supernatural being of pure evil that massacres using psychokinesis. I assume it captivated me for one of two reasons: either one; I'm spiritually minded, or two; humans by nature are hardwired for spirituality.
Over the years, I've kind of become jaded to any kind of entertainment as anything that disturbs me. There have been movies that have expanded the boundaries of debased entertainment. Rob Zombie and many other screenwriters have written and directed movies that raise the bar and make Clive Barker's horror flicks look kind of cheesy.
I can honestly say that many of the images and imagination Hollywood portrays though their recent horror flicks depicts people as the culprit of evil and not the supernatural. Maybe entertainers negatively influence society and maybe they don't, but the truth of the matter is evil exists in the real world. The vertices of good and evil, whether inherently human or inhuman have been explored by sociologists.
It seems that the perception of the source of good and evil separates people. The belief that evil spirits influence humans or the concept that humans by nature can be inherently evil.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/newsweek-cover-god--the-brain-how-were-wired-for-spirituality-82501122.html
Newsweek: 'God & the Brain: How We're Wired for Spirituality'
A new field of scientific research is showing how the human brain responds to and may create religious experiences and intimations of the divine. A slew of new books, scientific publications and the establishment of research centers in "neurotheology" are trying to identify what seems to be the brain's spirituality circuit, and to explain how it is that religious rituals have the power to move believers and nonbelievers alike, Newsweek reports in its cover package in the May 7 issue.
All the new research shares a passion for uncovering the neurological underpinnings of spiritual and mystical experiences and for discovering what happens in our brains when we sense that we have encountered a reality different from the reality of an every-day experience, writes Senior Editor Sharon Begley. In neurotheology, the study of the neurobiology of religion and spirituality, psychologists and neurologists try to pinpoint which regions of the brain turn on, and which turn off, during experiences that seem to exist outside time and space. The studies try to identify the brain circuits that surge with activity when we think we have encountered the divine, and when we feel transported by intense prayer, an uplifting ritual or sacred music.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2001/05/20/the-roots-of-evil.html
Scanning the family photographs, we see images of an apparently normal child, as ordinary as Sunday dinner with Grandma. Timothy McVeigh stands proudly behind his sister, plays with a model airplane, frolics in the swimming pool. But what America yearns to see is something quite different: that the man the child has become--the killer with the angular face, the buzz cut, the hard and narrow eyes--is not a man at all, but a monster. We want to see Timothy McVeigh as evil incarnate, as Satan, as depravity in human form. He has willfully and gratuitously inflicted harm on others--the very definition of an evil act--through a cold, cruel calculation untouched by compassion. There is a reason we need to view McVeigh this way, say scientists who study the human mind and the depths it can fall to. Doing so allows us to place him in a category labeled Evil with a capital E, but also, more importantly, one labeled not us. The enormity of McVeigh's act and the yawning hole in his soul where human compassion should lie, we need to assure ourselves, set him worlds apart from us.
But do they? In their search for the nature and roots of evil, scholars from fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, philosophy and theology are reaching a far more chilling conclusion. Most people do have the capacity for horrific evil, they say: the traits of temperament and character from which evil springs are as common as flies on carrion. "The capacity for evil is a human universal," says psychiatrist Robert I. Simon, director of the program in Psychiatry and Law at Georgetown University School of Medicine. "There is a continuum of evil, of course, ranging from 'trivial evils' like cutting someone off in traffic, to greater evils like acts of prejudice, to massive evils like those perpetrated by serial sexual killers. But within us all are the roots of evil."