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All I can say is wow. I just read two stories today on a news website that just horrified me. Not a “how could someone be so evil, cause I’m not” sort of horrified…. just horrified.

I read a book recently that sought to reveal the hidden world of demons and spiritual battles. There were a couple instances in the work of fiction where a person was literally taken over, and did not even recall the ghastly deeds they had just perpetrated. To the outside observer, it looked like the young woman had killed her own baby. From her perspective, it was the demon. Not in a blame shifting sort of way… just in the reality the author was painting of behavior so foreign that it had to be induced by an insidious creature, bent on destruction.

That’s all I am hoping for tonight. I hope that it is the Enemy who wants only to steal and kill and destroy. How can a father punch and then stab his own 8-year-old daughter in the neck and eyes, and then her 9-year-old friend as well? Reportedly, in what started as an act of discipline? How can another father shoot his wife, his mother and all three of his kids in their sleep before killing himself, leaving only a note saying “see you in the next life”?

How incredibly, horribly sad. My stomach is twisted in knots even as I write this. Horrific. Awful.

Only to steal, and kill, and destroy.

It is so sad that we can actually stoop so far. That we would be able to kill our own children. Our own family. Our own spouse. To blow ourselves up, taking others with us for the “good of the cause”. To fly a plane full of people into a building full of people, and bring it crashing to the ground in flames.

My heart aches tonight at our depravity. I think we have assistance, but we are ultimately responsible. But tonight I am not concerned with the responsiblity, just appalled at the depth of evil that is even possible.