Basically Wicked or Just Timid and Afraid?

                                                                      by Sain Sucha

If

         Murder, rape, incest, robbery, child-molesting or coercion

            are cardinal crimes in all civil societies

               and its offenders punishable by law

Then

         How come that

         The history books of all major religions

             name persons

             who were

            murderers, rapists, incestuous, robbers, paedophiles or, oppressors

Yet people

         Revere and look up to them

            as

            prophets, sages, gurus or conquerors

Why

         Those who we reject and abhor

            in our daily, civil life

         We accept and adore

            in our collective spiritual life?

Are we

         Basically wicked and depraved

            who nurture evil thoughts and desires

         or

         Basically timid and afraid

            who accept tyrants as our guides?