Do you like watching horror
movies? If you do, it says something about you. It says that you recognize evil
when you see it. Think about it. You watch them because it is thrilling to see
someone get mangled or murdered because it is something shocking and exotic to
you. It is probable that you haven’t witnessed anything like this with your own
eyes, and horror movies provide the “train wreck but can’t look away”
sensation. You recognize evil when you see it. You know that murder and
mangling is wrong, and that is exactly why you watch it. You watch it because
there is a fascination with violence. Here is the point: If it was not evil,
you wouldn’t watch it. You wouldn’t watch a movie about someone doing their
laundry or doing their dishes. If you happened to get through a whole movie
about this, you wouldn’t watch it a second time.
It could be that you do not see the
things that happen in these movies as evil, and the only reason you are
watching it is because you are entertained by watching people die horrible
deaths. To you, it is like watching a Broadway show, or riding a roller
coaster. Maybe it has some purpose in your twisted thoughts, but it is not
evil, because to you, evil does not exist.
The problem is that if you try to
tell someone who is being eaten alive by Jeffrey Dahmer, what is happening to
them is not evil, but is simply someone dancing to their DNA, like what Richard
Dawkins claims: “DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its
music.” (Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life), they
will not only think that is an absurd claim, but they will do whatever it takes
to survive, including clawing and punching their way out of a wooden box until
their fingers are physically wearing away and their hands become useless. When
you watch a horror movie from even a Darwinian worldview, it is still shocking
and, if I may, electrifying, because the reality is that it is wrong what is
happening to those people in the film.
You probably recognize the
difference between good and evil… Watching horror movies or even thrillers
prove that to you. If you claim that evil exists, then you must also claim that
goodness exists. If you know that good and evil exist, then clearly, morals exist.
Morals come from a law outside of us (much like gravity) which is why we know
that murder is wrong. Since there is a standard moral law, we know that there
is a moral Lawgiver, because laws do not simply produce themselves, nor are
produced out of nothing for no reason. So then, if you watch horror movies, you
must acknowledge that God exists. He is the standard of goodness. He does not
change. Just like it has always been wrong to murder, and it always will be, He
is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).
“The universe that we observe has precisely the properties
we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no
good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
—Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of
Life
Written by Nace Howell through the grace of the Lord Jesus
Written by Nace Howell through the grace of the Lord Jesus
© Nace Howell, 2018
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