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Corthell on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:20:03 AM
''In a society where every difficult form of human behavior is treated as nothing more than a psychological or physiological event, Kupelian demonstrates the logical absurdity of today's mechanistic view that all problems are someone else's fault, treatable with drugs. Ultimately, if nothing is anybody's fault, even serial killers and rapists are just victims.'' David Kupelian's new book, "How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America," is an important sequel to his 2005 best-seller, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom."
Kupelian's books are compelling because he deals seriously with issues modern secular thinkers tend to dismiss – most importantly the issue of original sin and the reality that as human beings we are all born with a flawed nature that is capable of being seduced into committing the worst transgressions imaginable.
A modern secular society in which atheists such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins can make millions writing books proclaiming Friedrich Nietzsche's message that God is dead – or more to the point, that God never existed in the first place – is a world in which issues of original sin or the inherently flawed nature of human beings are no longer taken seriously.
In "The Marketing of Evil," Kupelian illustrates dramatically how a disconnect from the fundamental Judeo-Christian perception that each and every human being is born corruptible and with the capacity to be readily drawn into evil leads effortlessly to a Vance Packard world in which "The Hidden Persuaders" of moral relativism dominate us all. As a consequence, today politically correct pundits teach that abortion is every woman's birthright and that every form of sexual perversion is acceptable – as long as everything is consensual.
In "How Evil Works," Kupelian extends his analysis to explore today's most urgent problems, from the socialist revolution unfolding in Washington, D.C., to the upsurge in Islamic radicalism, to the growth of militant atheism and the increasing demonization of Christianity.
Evil, as Kupelian shows, has been marketed to the point that the modern conscience has been numbed. Meanwhile, stroking and enlarging human pride is considered acceptable and perfectly justifiable in a world where the Old Testament God of justice and punishment is rejected in favor of a religion where everyone goes to heaven, regardless of how they lived their life. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128143