Evil is real. There are plenty of things to be embarrassed about as I observe my own life, but somewhere towards the top of the list is remembering the years when I insisted that “there’s no such thing as evil, only the absence of good.” Silly boy. Denying evil is naïve. But, oh that it were only naïve. It’s worse than that. It’s dangerous. Denying evil makes evil more … [Read more...]