A Man In Full

They Always Punish Prophets

Ariel Castro is a prophet, and we need many more of his ilk.  Of course, he has also committed acts of murder, kidnapping, rape, slaving, and torture--but that's beside the point.  These things are nothing because . . . well, read it out of his own mouth. 

The man convicted of holding three women captive in a house he turned into a prison and raping them repeatedly for a decade has been sentenced to life without parole plus 1000 years.  Ariel Castro, 53, apologised to his victims in a rambling, defiant statement before he was sentenced. He blamed a sex addiction, his former wife and even the FBI for not thoroughly investigating the abductions while claiming most of the sex was consensual and that the women were never tortured.

"These people are trying to paint me as a monster," he said. "I'm not a monster. I'm sick."  [NZ Herald]

Sure he did all these things.  But he was sick.  And the ones truly to blame are those who did not observe and diagnose him skilfully and early enough so that he would not have committed all those crimes and despicable acts. 

Castro is a poster boy for our world.  Evil is not evil; it is merely an illness.  And you can treat illnesses, right?
  Is someone morally wrong for having influenza and infecting others?  No--well, not unless he deliberately attempts to infect them.  But even if he were to do that, it would simply indicate just how sick he really was.  The "influenza" made him do it. 

We live in an ideological evolutionist world.  There is a clear bright line to be drawn from our dominant religion and ideology to Castro's self-apologia.  In evolutionism there are no morals, no ethics--only what works, what leads to survival and dominance over others.  He is the ultimate dominator.  The fact that he managed forced sexual relations with three women for ten years arguably marks him out as the more committed animal to the survival of his species.  The true Alpha Male. 

But if the rest of the species happen to think him wrong, they are the ones blaspheming evolutionism.  They are the hypocrites.  Even if they gang up on Castro and use the blunt force of  positive law to project their own prejudices upon him, at best they can allege no more than Castro having a sickness. They, we all, are at fault for not diagnosing and "helping" him sooner.  

Castro has remained true to the established ideology of being a mere animal.  He is a consistent, modern day prophet.  We need more of folk like him.  A man in full.