considerations of medjugorje

The Necessity Of Discernment

When addressing the possibility that actual messages from the Virgin Mary have been passed on to the purported visionaries at Medjugorje, I am often struck by a curious feature of the available analytics.

At times a reasonless vituperation may prevail either for or against the possibility that the visions are really happening or have really happened.

This vituperation is curious to me because it seems so purposeless.

It leads me to postulate a further consideration.

In any debate or in regard to any issue, we will often find decent people on both sides of the debate.

We may also unfortunately occasionally encounter on any or both sides of an issue, people who willfully serve evil.

They exist too.

And may adopt any position on any side in any discussion or any debate or advocacy or societal activism or religion or campaign.

Their purpose in serving evil in each instance may be chaos for its own sake.
It is a sobering consideration.

We should not be paranoid about such a notion.
The devil likes to appear more powerful than he is.

But we should be aware of the possibility whenever we encounter discussions that have mired in virulent vituperation.

The Medjugorje discussion has often wandered into the realms of quite rabid recrimination.

I wonder how much of it was provoked by those whom the psychologist M Scott Peck deemed the people of the lie.

Let us aspire to a fair minded, honorable, detached, clinical, humble attitude in seeking to discern the truth about Medjugorje.
This need not preclude our ability to speak plainly or to make a measured judgement when warranted.

We shall see what we shall see.