There is something spiritually thrilling about engaging in rebellion. Evil has it's own spiritual rewards. To fail to recognize this is to fail to recognize the risk of religious evil and at the same time to misunderstand the lure of satan. Debasing ourselves, becoming lower than animals, is exciting. It just is. I suppose the spiritual aspect makes sense, as only a spiritual-organic being can choose to be less or more than animal. The choice to be less is also an exercise of freedom and power.
People who let themselves go and embrace anarchy or the need to control may feel like they have found some secret, like they are living the life that others are too foolish to engage in. There is some truth in this, as their willingness to actually choose SOMEthing puts them on a more powerful level than those who instead just blindly follow the heard. But there is a thrill in the good that exceeds the thrill of evil. The Holy Spirit's empowerment is more intoxicating and more thrilling than anything evil has to offer. The light is more powerful than the dark. As a person who has fully partaken of both, I feel I know of what I speak. Letting go is thrilling...letting go and letting God even more so.
The benefits of the positive spiritual life are however harder to attain than of that of the negative spiritual life."He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" (Hunter S Thompson). True, but through the pain of humanity comes a state that is beyond all other experiences. The cost of pain can come of a greater benefit, but such a benefit does not come easy.
Yes the Dark Side is quicker, easier and more seductive. But it is paying less and getting less. I, myself, have a taste for the finer things, expensive though they may be.
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