RESISTING EVIL

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back.  Let's think about evil.

Today I saw a bumper sticker on a truck that said, "PRAYER IS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON AGAINST EVIL."

Now, I just finished reading Twelve Years a Slave.  More than once Solomon Northrup writes of the prayers of hundreds of slaves that passed through their hearts and lips unheard.

I think about all those who prayed during the tremendous suffering from terrible wars.  How many prayed when Hitler's SS or Stalin's Red Army murdered millions?

Was it prayers that stopped slavery, Hitler, or Stalin?  Was it something else?

In recent American history, was it prayer that ended lynching and Jim Crow?

I would say three things stop evil.

1.  Being good.
2.  Knowing good.
3.  Doing good.

Prayer allows us to endure evil.  Maybe by enduring it, we defeat it.  I do not know anymore about the latter than did the slave who prayed for God to set him free all his life until only death liberated him from bondage.  
What would he say were he asked if enduring evil is a kind of victory?

Blessings...