Everything Will Be Fine...

[noted at Heart of Canada in this post]

I'm sure we've all heard these kinds of statements before, to the point that the message is nearly a cliche. What struck me like a ton of bricks during the sermon was that these very same words, which so often are used to comfort people, can also be used another way. For people who perform nasty and horrible things to other people (or who stand by and do nothing to help those who are suffering), these words can be used as a kind of self-justifying rationalization for bad behavior.