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the rounds, a philosophy that is selfish and self-centered and without spiritual worth. In Raven: The Praying Bird, Brother Bernard said that the fundamentalists were praying for Armageddon. Twenty years later that prayer is dangerously close to being realized in our present aggression against Iraq.

Compared to what’s happening in Iraq today, this is only a story of a small evil that overwhelmed a family in the 1980’s. Many small evils lead to bigger ones, though, and

the wicked ones take what they can get and gobble up more. Some of us don’t believe that it’s a good thing to shine the light on evil. Some people think that the more you pay attention to the dark side, the stronger it becomes.


		the rounds, a philosophy that is selfish and self-centered and without spiritual worth. In Raven: The Praying Bird, Brother Bernard said that the fundamentalists were praying for Armageddon. Twenty years later that prayer is dangerously close to being realized in our present aggression against Iraq. Compared to what’s happening in Iraq today, this is only a story of a small evil that overwhelmed a family in the 1980’s. Many small evils lead to bigger ones, though, and the wicked ones take what they can get and gobble up more. Some of us don’t believe that it’s a good thing to shine the light on evil. Some people think that the more you pay attention to the dark side, the stronger it becomes.
					I don’t agree. If we look away too many times, it will overwhelm us. It is better to see it clearly, work to transform it, and always make the choice to turn towards the good and the true. Ellen Raven, Spring 2003