Good Haters

Not only are we an unrighteous creature, we live in a world that is opposed to that which is truly good. Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘goody two shoes’? You may have worked with or went to school with people who were known to be a ‘goody goody’. They didn’t smoke. They didn’t drink. They didn’t look at dirty magazines or flirt with the opposite sex. How do most people view individuals such as these?

The world doesn’t embrace individuals who have the reputation of being a prude. Those who are known the be a ‘goody goody’ are looked upon with a glare of disdain. Don’t you find that to be odd? We complain that we can’t trust anybody. We complain that the world is falling to pieces. Simple Plan told us to open up our eyes, but we throw darts at anyone who makes any effort in trying to live right. We mock them. We look for some fatal flaw with which to bring them down.

400 years before Christ, the Greek philosopher Plato addressed this issue within the context of human government in his work, The Republic.

“Suppose, he said, that a perfectly just man came into the world. He must not merely seem just, but be just. However, it’s important that he not be viewed as just. If he were, he would be honoured and rewarded, “and then we shall not know whether he is just for the sake of justice, or for the sake of honors and rewards. Therefore let him be clothed in justice only, and have no other covering...Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought the worst. Then he will have been put to the proof, and we shall see whether he will be affected by the fear of infamy. And let him continue thus to the hour of his death, being just and seeming unjust.”
Plato asked what the fate of such a man would be, and he answered his own question: “He will be scourged, racked, bound. He will have his eyes burned out. And at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled.”” The Christians: The Veil Is Torn. Christian History Project, (C) 2002. Page 26.

It’s acceptable to pick one or two decent causes and to work for those causes. We look favourably upon individuals who advocate for world peace, the environment or helping the poor. We look unfavourably upon anything or anyone which makes any attempt to be good through and through.