Oscar Wilde………“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
Did he write that into a play or was it in a letter or essay? Funny I was tinking about how satan got Eve to eat that of the forbidden fruit. I was thinking maybe, like kids they just admired God so much that the thought of being more like Him appealed to them. Anyway it was a trick of satans. The intelligence of innocence is a very different one from the cunning, manipulative, deceitful intelligence of evil. Without sin, satan the demons, we could manage very well with just innocence. However we are asked to be as innocent as doves but as wise as serpents.
Did he write that into a play or was it in a letter or essay? Funny I was tinking about how satan got Eve to eat that of the forbidden fruit. I was thinking maybe, like kids they just admired God so much that the thought of being more like Him appealed to them. Anyway it was a trick of satans. The intelligence of innocence is a very different one from the cunning, manipulative, deceitful intelligence of evil. Without sin, satan the demons, we could manage very well with just innocence. However we are asked to be as innocent as doves but as wise as serpents.
Gery, that is very appropriate and inspiring for where we find ourselves in 2020, thank you.
Very astute. Gotta love Oscar Wilde! Love all of his work.