True evil, the point of no return, and fittings for sheep's clothing

Did you hear about the recently discovered letter Hitler wrote in the last hours of his life recanting his evil deeds? Of course you didn't.

True evil is almost never rectifiable, and evil doers are rarely transformed into paragons of morality. (I’m not talking about learning not to lie, for example, and the metamorphisis of walking away from substance addiction. Of course these kinds of turn arounds can and do happen with frequency, thank goodness!)

Some of Trump’s original minions/initial enablers tried to fool the public into believing they’d changed after term one and Jan 6 so they could benefit financially. They had not and have not.

Cohen. Barr. Pence. Mattis might have been an exception. I was more convinced of that when he resigned than I am now. A once-spotted leopard suddenly spotless? Uhm, no. There are a few exceptions, very few.

The apostle Paul, perhaps; probably. John Newton who penned the words to the hymn “Amazing Grace” in 1779 had been captain of a slave ship; he eventually repudiated the entire slave trade and his role in it.

Again, some but very few.