The anti-heroic nihilist does not believe in a moral universe. All ethics, as was the case with Bill Clinton, is relative. In his empty heaven, there are no stars to steer by and there is no hand on the compass to point true north.

What else explains the Left’s slavish deference and devotion to the world’s tyrants? They say George W. Bush is a “war criminal.” How many have died at the hands of Fidel Castro and still, to this day, languish in tropical gulags? Yet the nihilists flock to Havana singing praises to an ailing tyrant.

Nihilists say, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom-fighter.”  This makes sense in the empty quadrants of their souls. One could just as well say, “One man’s cannibal is another man’s picky eater.” Without the added component of moral sensibility, the light of truth cannot illuminate their dark universe.

Perfect moral symmetry is one of God’s great creations. So swift and terrible is it that he became flesh to save us all from the dread consequences of our love-affair with lies and death.

Part of this perfect symmetry is that Evil is not self-aware. If it were, Satan would never have rebelled. Why would one pursue a path that leads to self-annihilation? That Hitler spent his last moments in a bunker and ended his evil by his own hand—it was all inevitable.

Why would Leftists, who revel in the license that freedom allows, fail to recognize the threat of jihadists and even politically coddle them—when these enemies have sworn to brutally revoke that license and would in all likelihood kill them? Why would the New York Times reveal the U.S. government’s secret programs tracing money transfers to—and cell phone conversations with—terrorists who have stabbed at the very heart of the city that newspaper claims to serve?  They, like all creatures in rebellion to moral order are in love with self-destruction—as is their counterpart: the suicide bomber.

There is a deceptive simplicity to God’s perfect justice, that makes the enemy of moral order its own worse enemy—that makes Napoleon or Hitler or Pol Pot or Islamic terrorism overreach and the quislings who compromise with them unable to see the path of destruction that lay ahead. By a divine blindness, evil and its minions prepare their own destruction as part of their own master plan. It is not so much that good triumphs as it is that evil destroys itself.       

Cosmologists say the universe is rapidly expanding; that galaxies collide and massive black holes pull all matter nearing its event horizon into a bottomless pit. In all this chaos there is something that escapes the nihilist’s, as well Einstein’s, relative universe—God’s perfect justice.

--Mr. Curmudgeon