2 Nephi 27:1 - Evil Compared to Drunken Stupor

Verse 1 grabs my attention.  I’ve had the unwelcome experience of seeing evil in some of its other forms and really do view evil as a “drunken stupor”.  As a mother of a child with an eating disorder, I have seen the bondage it has created in this young woman’s life; that her actions are not always in her right mind and that it is an evil – an assault against the body that God has created for her.  We see this same drunkenness in the acts of people who are consumed with hate to the point their actions are not in their right mind.  Evil manifests itself in the form of drunkenness in nearly all counts.  I read a book recently of a man who had night visions (aka out-of-body experiences), and he saw deceased spirits who had left this life without repenting of their sins who were fighting over the body of those succumbing to temptation to view pornography.  They wanted to feel the euphoria of that evil again through his body.  His description of this scene resembled drunkenness as well.  It was a chilling description and made me realize when we succumb to evil temptations, we lose our ability to control ourselves much like an alcoholic who is drunk.