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Source: https://xcancel.com/_whitneywebb/status/2034966594879643918#m Tl;dr: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently claimed, citing Will Durant, that “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good". This is not a misstep, he also said this years ago. It is an explicit, repeated, deliberate advocacy for evil as the ultimate victor and for raw governmental power over peace, love, truth, morality, and ethics. Netanyahu's claim is false on every level. It directly contradicts Judaism’s own scriptures (the Exodus where Pharaoh’s empire collapses before Moses, David defeating Goliath, the prophets declaring the wicked will perish, and the Babylonian exile ending in restoration). The ‘no choice’ excuse is the oldest lie: every tyrant claims necessity while reality proves good doesn’t need brutality to endure. The ‘governments must be ruthless’ defense is pure delusion. History shows cooperation and truth outlast every ‘pragmatic’ atrocity. It advocates for the same use of owner used to oppress people throughout history. It misapplies Durant’s single line of “cosmic indifference” while ignoring his life’s work celebrating how moral codes built civilization. It ignores the axiomatic objective law of ethics, not mere strategy, but inexorable reality like gravity, proven through human action (Mises, Hayek, Bastiat), incentives, cause-and-effect consequences, and the documented truth that nobody escapes their evil (Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson). Evil inflicts real harm through free will and serves as a learning process, but it always self-destructs: it is a virus that rots systems from within. Transformative good endures and conquers from the inside. Jesus lives today in billions, His teachings of love and forgiveness, conquering from within while Genghis Khan’s skull mountains crumbled. History confirms it without exception: Socrates, Galileo, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. all triumphed over brute power through moral force. Regimes sprint on a treadmill; ethics runs the marathon. Reality does not have a prejudice. It simply keeps choosing what works. And what works, axiomatically, observably, and eternally, is good. Evil never triumphs. Goodness does. The Triumph of Ideas. Why Ethics Outlasts Empires: A Rebuttal to Netanyahu’s Recurring Claim That Evil Overcomes Good This was no isolated verbal misstep or unfortunate optics failure. On March 19, 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated a position he has articulated before: “Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good.” In a 2019 interview he framed the same idea by citing historian Will Durant: history does not favor Christ over Genghis Khan; history favors the strong. The message is deliberate, consistent, and unmistakable: might is not merely one path to survival; might is the only reality that matters. Evil triumphs whenever it possesses superior force. Goodness, by contrast, is impotent unless it adopts evil’s methods. This is not realism. It is an explicit, blatant advocacy for evil as the ultimate victor and for raw governmental power over peace, love, truth, morality, and ethics. Netanyahu is openly standing against his own Jewish faith, against Christianity, against the moral conscience of humanity, and against observable reality itself. Evil Does Not Prevail: The Witness of the Hebrew Scriptures Netanyahu’s claim stands in direct, irreconcilable contradiction to the foundational narrative of the Jewish faith he ostensibly represents. The Torah and the Hebrew Bible are not ambiguous: evil, no matter how powerful, never ultimately triumphs. The paradigmatic story is the Exodus. Pharaoh, the ruthless ruler of the mightiest empire on earth wielded absolute military, economic, and political power. He enslaved the Hebrews, slaughtered their infants, and pursued them with chariots. By Netanyahu’s logic, Pharaoh should have prevailed. Instead, the sea swallowed his army. The oppressor’s might collapsed before the justice of God. The message is explicit: “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” (Exodus 14:14). Evil’s apparent strength is illusory; it is always temporary. The same unbreakable pattern repeats throughout the Old Testament. David, a shepherd boy, defeats Goliath not by matching the giant’s brute force but by trusting in the name of the Lord (1 Samuel 17). If Israel sees itself in David’s shoes against overwhelming odds, the lesson remains unchanged: Goliath fell not to a bigger weapon, but to faith that rendered brute strength irrelevant. The same pattern echoes in Exodus, Pharaoh’s chariots drowned without Moses lifting a sword. Netanyahu’s worldview, by contrast, echoes the giant’s arrogance: might as the decider. Scripture declares otherwise. Good triumphs quietly, inexorably, without borrowing evil’s tools. The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos denounce kings and empires that wield power ruthlessly, declaring that God “brings down the mighty from their thrones” and that “the wicked will perish". The Book of Job and the Psalms affirm that the suffering of the righteous is real but never final; divine justice ultimately vindicates the good. Even the Babylonian exile, the apparent triumph of a pagan empire ends in return and restoration. The Hebrew Bible’s unbroken testimony is that evil may rage, but it never conquers. Mankind’s story is not the victory of the ruthless; it is the eternal struggle against ruthlessness, with good prevailing because God is sovereign and because individuals are sovereign among one another, bearing personal accountability directly to Him. Netanyahu therefore does not merely embarrass Israel’s public relations. He directly contradicts the religion of the Jewish people. By declaring that evil overcomes good when it is strong enough, he aligns himself with Pharaoh, not Moses; with the oppressors, not the prophets. He is not defending Judaism, he is rejecting its moral core. Durant’s Cosmic Indifference, Misapplied Netanyahu draws on a single chilling line from Will and Ariel Durant’s The Lessons of History (1968): “Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under; and the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan". Taken in isolation, the line can sound like a brutal endorsement of power. It is not. It is a declaration of cosmic indifference: history is blind, survival a biological scorecard. Might gets its turn because it can. Good gets its turn only because it proves useful. It's an acknowledgment of short-term cause and effect. But Durant’s indifference isn’t license for evil. History’s scoreboard favors what endures: not lone wolves, but groups that cooperate, organize, and defend. Desperation breeds pillaging, sure, but those who band together on trust outlast the raiders. Early Christians had no legions, just the cross as symbol: love over fear, networks over swords. Brute force fails. Yet even Durant’s larger life’s work in The Story of Civilization celebrates how Christianity and moral codes tamed barbarism and built the West, showing the single line above was merely philosophical realism about nature’s indifference in the realm of time and space, an acknowledgment of free will’s temporary latitude, not his full verdict. Netanyahu’s selective invocation distorts this into a prescriptive endorsement of ruthlessness. It mistakes a temporary biological observation for an eternal law. Ethics Is Axiomatic Objective Law, Not Strategy, Not Preference Ethics is not a strategy. It is an axiomatic objective law embedded in reality itself, as observable and inexorable as gravity or cause and effect. It shapes outcomes, societies, and cooperation with ironclad necessity. Human action as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Frédéric Bastiat demonstrated, reveals the unbreakable mechanics of incentives and consequences. When power shifts incentives from service to self-preservation and coercion, evil inflicts real harm. It oppresses, captures, and wounds. Free will allows evil to exist as part of the learning process. But nobody gets away with anything. Carl Jung and Jordan Peterson have documented what the highest thinkers throughout history have always known: No one gets away with anything. The ledger always balances. Evil self-destructs. It violates the functional laws of human systems and therefore cannot endure. When a person seeks truth from a healthy state of mind, awareness of doing harm is unavoidable. Thoughts and actions manifest real, mental and physical consequences. The options are absolute: live in denial, which produces mental illness or come to terms with objective reality. While chemical imbalances may impair rational thought in some individuals, this does not describe the healthy person. Truth, by definition, is accuracy with reality. Ideas transform reality. A stick becomes a fishing pole not through domination but through truth. Trust compounds like interest. Forgiveness frees bandwidth. Lies require constant energy. Forgiveness and love (inexorable from truth) are mutually beneficial. Oppression is expensive. Cooperation is cheap. These are not opinions. They are biological and social physics. Evil is a virus; ethics is the vaccine. Biology does not vote, it counts. And the ledger always favors what keeps the species alive longer, healthier, and more inventive. The Superiority of Transformative Ideas Over Brute Force Jesus Christ lives today in the transformed lives of more than two billion people. His teachings: radical love, forgiveness of enemies, the infinite dignity of every person enter hearts and minds and produce genuine, irreversible transformation. These ideas do not merely percolate; they conquer from within. They have taken over the world not through military might but through changed lives. Millions upon millions of individuals across cultures and centuries who have internalized forgiveness, rejected vengeance, and chosen service. “Love your enemies” is not sentiment; it is the ultimate strategy that turns potential rebels into loyalists and builds a network no sword can sever. The Bible itself is a chronicle of oppression. Pharaoh’s whips, Babylon’s exile, Rome’s crosses, followed by the slow, stubborn, unstoppable victory of something quieter. Jesus does not overthrow Caesar with legions. He infects the empire from its prisons and slave quarters with ideas that function as objective upgrades to human nature, clearly demonstrated through His own life and actions. Genghis Khan’s empire crumbled within generations. His legacy is mountains of skulls and a reputation for barbarism. He does not “live” in humanity’s collective conscience except as a warning. Those who wield such power remain forever “stuck with the evil that they do". Jesus Christ lives today. His ideas turned sticks into hospitals, empires of fear into societies of rights, and hatred into reconciliation. These ideas are not temporary; they are unconquerable. A Position Contrary to the Entire Moral Arc of Human History Netanyahu’s claim stands against the entire ethical progress of civilization. Socrates chose hemlock rather than betray truth to Athenian power. Galileo defied the might of the Church and state to affirm scientific reality. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. defeated empires of oppression not with superior violence but with moral force: nonviolence, truth (satyagraha), and the refusal to let evil dictate the rules of engagement. Their victories further prove that moral ideas outlast tanks and tyrants. History’s long arc is not the triumph of the ruthless. It is the slow, persistent victory of conscience over cruelty: the abolition of slavery, the advance of human rights, the spread of democracy. These were not achieved by adopting evil’s methods but by rejecting them. Evil obviously has real impact, Genghis piles skulls, totalitarians build empires on terror, but every system rots. People sabotage, revolt and evade when possible. They remember. They teach their children the truth. Ideas outlive armies. Truth is persistent. Lies require constant energy. Oppression is expensive. Cooperation is cheap. Forgiveness frees bandwidth. Good is health, evil is harmful. Trust compounds like interest. Governments and organizations are simply larger versions of the medieval king or the Mongol khan. Power shifts incentives from service to self-preservation. Yet the capture never lasts. The moment fear lifts, people choose consent over coercion because ethics secures their children’s future, their own well-being, and the possibility of genuine progress. Not Cosmic Favoritism, Biological and Axiomatic Truth Calling ethics a cosmic preference is like saying gravity has a bias toward the ground. Harm disrupts. Trust rebuilds. Deceit erodes. Truth is axiomatically accuracy, it stabilizes, fortifies and advances. Durant’s line, cherry picked by this statist, is not profound realism. It is the very claim an oppressor would want you to believe. But history’s data set is now two thousand years deep since Christ and thousands more before him. No sound mind sees evil as the endgame. Ethics prevails because it is axiomatic law. Not noble. Axiomatic. Functional. Inevitable. Conclusion: The Moral Bankruptcy of "Evil Triumphs" or “Might Makes Right” Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated assertion reveals a worldview that is strategically shortsighted, theologically bankrupt, and ethically indefensible. It inverts the moral order: it calls evil “strong” and goodness “weak". It dismisses the cross, the Exodus, the prophets, Socrates, Galileo, Gandhi, MLK, Mises, Hayek, Bastiat, Jung, Peterson, and the testimony of every moral giant. It mistakes temporary material dominance for eternal victory. Regimes pretend to stand. They inflict temporary suffering on many humans, they build monuments to permanence. But they are always sprinting on a treadmill. The ethical path is the natural marathon. It is not dramatic in any single moment as authority often is. The universe may have no prejudice. But reality does. It keeps choosing what works. Evil is temporary, what works is good. Evil does not overcome good. It never has. Good outlasts, outshines, and ultimately always defeats evil. Not by borrowing the sword, but by possessing a strength no sword can touch: the power to transform the human heart. Netanyahu’s position is not a defense of Israel; it is an open advocacy for the very ruthlessness the Jewish people, the Christian faith, and the moral conscience of humanity have always opposed. History, scripture, human action, and all of reality, truth itself stand against it. Evil does not triumph. Goodness does, because it is the only thing that truly endures.

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