THE "GOOD" GO OVER TO THE DARK SIDE IN CHILE- A WARNING FOR ALL OF US

Pray for the people of Chile. In a country that is 70% Roman Catholic we are witnessing a complete breakdown of all barriers between good and evil. Terror on the scale of that being inflicted upon the innocent requires the participation of people that would normally be considered law abiding. Many of the good citizens have joined the bad in an orgy of theft and violence simply because they can. Many of the good have lost all concept of right and wrong, probably because they never had it, sacrificing their souls for the temporal gain.

This is what happens when a society falls apart and it doesn't take a natural disaster to cause it. Prepare yourselves, your family and your friends for what may be coming our way. The guy that sits in the pew next to you in church may try to kill you when it all comes apart for the food or fuel that you have. We are called to help each other in a time of crisis, and we should, but don't close your eyes to the evil that surrounds you. It can come over you before you are aware of it. Sometimes it can even be inside you, just waiting for the moment when you drop your guard.

We all have the capacity for evil and it will take us over if we allow it. Only through prayer and grace can we avoid the fate of so many of the "good" in Chile.

"Following the deadly 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck near the city of Concepción, Chile on Saturday, Cardinal Francis George sent the U.S. bishops' condolences to Bishop Alejandro Goić of the Chilean Catholic Conference, offering prayers for the victims."
Catholic News Agency

“I had to shoot people! Do you understand what that means?”
Those were the first words said by Jorge Mendoza, manager of an important company in Concepción, when he was finally able to call Buenos Aires.

“I had to shoot people, I had to shoot people” he repeated in a lethargy state.
“Its hordes killing and robbing, they don’t leave anything standing. And here I am with my wife and two kids, they are terrified. This is worse than the earthquake, we cant stand it no more, we have no power, no water, no gas, no oil, nothing. We organized with four other neighbors to defend ourselves, no one protects us and we haven’t slept in 3 days, God, someone please do something”, he said. “They are robbing people that travel alone we cant move, we’re damned to hell and no one does anything to help us”.

Felipe Sandoval, journalist, lives his own tragedy. “Mi house is still standing and my family is ok, but the situation is anarchic. I had to send my wife and 3 daughters to a friends house in a gated community to protect them, and with another 7 neighbors we are protecting what little we have left. There’s no gasoline, we move around in bikes and through populated areas alone, because if not they rob you even that”.

He goes on “Y live in a humble, working class neighborhood, hard working people, and I’m living through things I never thought I would. We are our own hell”.
He continues saying “First they looted food stores, then supermarkets looking for anything, and now they started with the houses. Today, life isn’t worth anything here. What the earthquake hasn’t destroyed, this has”."
Surviving in Argentina