26 Letter to my Atheist Self #3

I send this letter back to September 11th, 2001, a watershed for our world and my personal history. Evil is insidious. It can destroy with a suddenness and violence that shocks and disconcerts, but it HAS a logic, too; reason, evidence and motivational justification can lead to great evil, as well as great good. Reason is a tool, and like all tools it must be directed by a will, by choice, by decision. By their fruits you will know them, Jesus said. When I turned from God to atheism, I too tore down the towers of what I labeled un-reason and oppression. Truth, however, when it is ardently sought, can use even our false turnings, our faulty reasoning, and our impure motivations to direct our feet back on to the proper path, to rebuild what was destroyed. And thus the war continues. As Truth restores, evil is never quiescent, and there are ever new incarnations from which to extricate ourselves and our world. God, and God alone saves.