Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

[Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) through the help of his friend Watson (Jude Law), just averted war on an industrial scale.  Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) is the man playing Chess with Holmes, his arch enemy.]

What can we learn from the discussions of Holmes and Moriarty?  They are talking about something that is rather interesting when we think about it.  Moriarty states that somewhere buried in the subconscious is an insatiable desire for conflict.  Is he correct?  I believe he is, but the question then is is it able to be held in check or not?  I believe it is.  As much as we can look around and get a sense that humanity doesn't give a hoot what happens to it, that it is spiraling out of control down the toilet you can also find its opposite.  

Anytime somebody talks about humanity being screwed up we can look to the beautiful examples of the saints (both those recognized like St. John Paul II, and those not so public).  They remind us that humanity is not a crapshoot.  We cannot forget though that evil is real, and that it is out there, and we voluntarily choose it.  It is interesting to note that we cannot say that man is without hope, yet we can say he is utterly miserable.  So is Holmes fighting in vain for the prevention of war?  No, is the simple answer.  

We are called as Holmes is doing in this clip to prevent bloodshed.  To seek the good of man, and not to be selfish and profit from the death of hundreds, thousands of lives as Moriarty wishes to do.  I am thankful for the world that Holmes lives in because when ever a great evil arises in our midst God always provides somebody to combat that evil.  When Hitler came, we have the beauty of St. Maximilian Kolbe, and St. (Edith Stein).  May we have the courage to fight against the evil that besets our world as Holmes did, as Kolbe did, and as Edith did.