Good vs. Evil OR God vs. the Devil

Beginning early in the 1960s in these United States and all around what passes for the Free World, two forces have been growing bigger and more dominant, hand in glove.  They are EVER BIGGER GOVERNMENT and the erroneously named SOCIAL SCIENCE. 

The term ‘science’ (which politicians and bureaucrats lecture us that they are following) is supposed to mean that the judgements of practicing scientists are reliable truths.  If you believe in the reliability of TRUTH as judged by PEER-REVIEWED Social Science Studies, then you believe that the ‘DATA DRIVEN’ and ‘EVIDENCE BASED’ PEER-REVIEWED Social Science Study Conclusions must be as true and reliable as any other SCIENCE!

Today it is an undeniable truth that people who regularly lie and cheat are vastly more successful and more numerous than the Compulsively HONEST with an overdeveloped Conscience that annoys the Hell out of most humanity in private life circumstances.

One of the most famous Biblical stories is the story of Job.  God and the Devil take this great man and test his faith in doing right and not doing wrong by piling on a mass of disappointment and hurt. 

The two most powerful cliches that Social Scientists love to hide behind are ‘DATA DRIVEN’ and ‘EVIDENCE BASED’ so that real proof need never be presented or questioned or tested.  From this perspective of PEER-REVIEWED SOCIAL SCIENCE ‘DATA DRIVEN’ and ‘EVIDENCE BASED’ in our world today, clearly the Devil outscores GOD. 

In the post-WW II era, before the 1960s, the ratio of compulsively honest to compulsively dishonest was at least 1 good vs. 1 bad.  As per the Grand Experiment of God vs. the Devil in the material world, clearly the Devil outscores God at least 10-1 today.  Honesty seems to be the worst policy today. 

The Job biblical story has a peculiar analogue that began about five centuries ago in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.  There was a real person in that period, known as FAUSTUS, who was featured for hundreds of years in dramatic stories – the two most famous of which were a play by Christopher Marlowe about four centuries ago and, even more so, in a life’s work of the great genius Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832).  The Devil invariably tempts the character with an offer of some type of supernatural power in exchange for his immortal soul.

Before the 1960s, the idea of a Personal, Individual, Non-Socialized CONSCIENCE was not as outdated and socially laughable as obviously it is today.  There cannot be conscience without soul nor soul without conscience.