Examining evil

If you don’t believe in the devil, then …

The man’s gentle face slowly sagged and became a picture of foreboding. “I can hardly advise you, who thinks the devil is only hot air, now can I?”

from “Immanuel’s Veins” by Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker really has a way of getting right to the point, doesn’t he?

He looks at the dark side of life. The all-too-real dark side of life.

If you don’t believe in the devil, then … More

Sanitized evil

Maybe that’s a problem – sanitizing evil. No – lot’s of people won’t want to see it. But to some extent – maybe we should. We can’t smell it. We can’t get inside the head of the person who committed the act. And we think – “it’s bad”. But we still don’t really know.