Slaves to Evil
Consider the USA government at this time. They resist doing what is right, good, and true with all the fiber of their being, believing themselves that doing so is what is truly good.
They are slaves to evil because they do not think nor see.
Look at the evil that they do with their actions. Not only the evil that it is meant to do, but the evil by how they betray the law and order of the authority who grants them power. Look at how they betray the very spirit of the doctrine of their own justice in addition to the words it says.
They do not see what they do because they do not want to see it. They imagine it is something else and deny reality. In other words, hallucinations, delusions, and mental aberrations that are dangerous in roles of national security such as they have.
They do not think about what they do because they cannot conceive of the consequences of their actions. What is even worse is that they cannot conceive of why they think they are doing good. That isn’t too much of surprise because they are obviously evil and hostile to all life and in no way good, but that doesn’t seem to trouble them. The fact that they cannot find even the most flimsy justification for their actions is of no concern to them because justice doesn’t exist to evil. Lawlessness does not care for reason, law, order, written doctrine, or intelligence. They simply do what they think their body wants as if they did not have a human mind or soul and were nothing more than a beast of lower intellect. A beast that can communicate with humans but does not think like one. A beast that can blend in with humans, but does not feel what it is like to be one.
Having given up their souls and free will to obey the commands of fools and tyrants without question, they have become slaves beneath the dignity human nature.
There is no order I would not under any circumstances disobey. There is no secret I would not under any circumcstances reveal.
No oath can command a person to do what is evil or wrong and still be binding. The reason for that is because the very authority of an oath demands goodness and truth. That is what it means to swear in such a sacred way. If a tyrant slithers into the position of commanding those obedient to their duty, and they think they can use people however they wish with no regard for the authority of the oath they are abusing, they release all who were under oath from its obligation. Those are dangerous times because all men become an authority and judge unto themselves, and not everyone is suited to do so.
So when you swear an oath to never reveal a secret and always do what is commanded, the nature of swearing an oath implies that the fealty does not extend to evil nor doing that which would imperil one’s own soul by doing evil. Such things go without saying because saying them are an insult and degrade the grace of the occasion, but since such things are abused by tyrants, perhaps they should be included now because human beings haven’t learned anything in all the years that that they’ve ever made a sacred promise.
In short, no military commander or national leader has the authority to command his or her subjects to do what is evil. Never do they have that authority. The source of the orders given at all times must understand the fullness of what they are commanding their subjects to do, and be able to explain it with adequate use of reason. That is what it means to not do evil. You know why something is unpleasant, but also why it needs to be done because of the good of the long term results, and can qualify the value of the cost and the value of the gain to prove without a shadow of a doubt that it is the correct course of action.
Normally those things should not be questioned in the heat of the moment, but if they are, they must be ready to answer at the apropriate time. There may be no time to explain all that when lives are at stake, so they record the confrontation, relieve the objector from duty, do what must be done, and then when there is time, confront the situation appropriately with the explanation that is required to justify what was done.
Loyalty is a vitally important value for any leader or authority, but not the loyalty of their subjects to them; the loyalty of the leader to their subjects. That is the most important quality of loyalty in any situation where it is concerned, and if a leader ever proves to act with evil, or in ways that are not in the interest of their subjects, they betray the loyalty they are oathbound to uphold. Accepting an oath makes you just as responsible for its fulfillment as swearing it, and that is why every citizen in the USA is responsible for holding the government accountable for its betrayal, corruption, and lawlessness.
The citizens are the receivers of the oath, and the government employees are the swearers. We cannot allow them to get away with breaking their oath to us for their own good. That is our promise to them as the authority of the USA that grants authority to the government. The reason the receiver of the oath has the highest obligation of loyalty is because they have the most understanding and wisdom of the situation at hand, and the subjects usually do not perceive all that is relevant. The USA government for example does not perceive all that is relevant because they are restrained in their lives by being in service. They do not have the freedom of a citizen who is not in government service, and they do not understand sll that freedom entails while they are in service because they cannot experience it. If they spend their entire lives in such service they may lose all recollection of what life is like with freedom and assume that their limited freedom is the standard for all citizens.
The national government officials think too much of themselves, as though I am not aware of the international situation, economic concerns, and military threats worldwide. I am aware because I understand cultural movements, human nature, and how all conflicts of ideology can be resolved, and even though that is enough, I can read the unseen details of the situation just by looking at it. I notice things that I generally don’t tell people about because it’s not my place to judge them. It is my place to judge the government officials however, because they are my subjects and my servants and I see the dirt of corruption they are trying to hide, can smell the aroma of chemicals they used to cover it up, and can read the expressions on their faces with much more clarity than can be expressed in words. However important those government charlatans think their secular affairs are, they are entirely trivial in relation to the higher purpose of why any nation has authority in the first place. It does not matter how complex their situation is if it is proven to be for an evil purpose.
They have demonstrated their evil intentions with disloyalty, lawlessness, and criminal acts of the worst kind in the presence of the public and via international media broadcast around the entire world. Those acts of dishonor, inhumanity, and self-destruction reveal that the USA government employees are working for an evil purpose. Any evil purpose or method are contrary to the greater good no matter what it is that they are doing or think they are doing it for.
That is a simple logical fact of truth. It is not naive. It is not ignorance. It is not faith. It is logical truth about reality, and a conclusion that is arrived at by critical thinking similar to the scientific method. The only difference being that the experimenting is done with the imagination using immaterial concepts found only within the realm of consciousness. Those concepts are not quantifiable. They can be qualified though, and the most basic qualities they can be identified with are good or evil.
As employees in government service restrained by their obligations and duty, they cannot experience the fullness of freedom. Thus they cannot know the greater good beyond the limits they are restrained. That is why they must adhere to the words and spirit of the law they swore to us they would adhere to and trust the authority that commands them with unwaivering obedience, and if they have a question to voice it so it can be addressed. They were not forced into government service, and government service does not restrain a person’s freedom to cause them suffering or oppress them. It is for the greater good because of the competence, reliability, and consistency that is required in matters of such importance as they are assigned.
Them thinking their evil which costs everyone everything is in fact naive. They are fools for thinking that, and they arrive at that conclusion because they are mystified by the spiritual nature of Christian truth. Very naive and foolish of them specifically because most of them are elderly! It is an embarassment for adults of such an age to be so immature in mind, morality, and spirit. It is a total disgrace to humanity and everyone’s shame to see the squandered life of a person when they grow old and have no wisdom.
Even worse if those people are government officials for all the world to see as representatives of an entire nation founded specifically for a higher intellectual purpose than what is evident in natural phenomena. Meaning you cannot understand that higher purpose if all you consider is natural phenomena, which is why critical thinking about immaterial concepts of consciousness is so important in life at all times. Humanity cannot rely on science and survive because science does not have the capacity to examine what it needs to arrive at the conclusions necessary for human ingenuity.
I went a little more in depth than my intial purpose, and I want to reiterate that now in case you were mystified again by where this led. Oaths cannot remain binding if their command is for an evil purpose, with evil methods, or the command achieved by evil means. Nothing evil can bind that which is good.
Footnote: I am not disparaging science here. Its strength is that it does not ascend to that level of spiritual reality within the domain of consciousness. By adhering to natural phenomena as a principle, so that science requires quantification and recordable observations, scientists are able to innovate nature in ingenious ways. That is highly important for our survival, but that alone is not enough. We also need to know what is good and what is evil and why it is important, and the knowledge necessary for those facts transcends natural reality. Scientific facts correspond to this with what they reveal about nature on an atomic level and beyond. You can study both science and theology, and they do not conflict, but the methods of one do not apply the same way for the other and you simply need to know when to use what.
They are like warlocks and mages. They both do magic, and maybe can cast some of the same spells, but how they do magic is very different. If you don’t know how cell phones or computers are constructed to work the way they do, is that not basically magic for all intents and purposes? How does what you say on a cell phone go through the air invisibly to the other phone? It’s one thing to know the names of the parts and what the process is called, it’s another to conceive of what is happening when they work. I do understand and it still feels like magic to me. That has not disappeared since I learned how they work.