Evil is real and is a permanent part of the human condition. “To deny that evil is a permanent affliction of humankind,” says the philosopher Ernst Becker in his book Escape from Evil, “is perhaps the most dangerous kind of thinking.” He goes on to suggest that in denying evil, humans have heaped evil on the world. Historically, great misfortunes have resulted from humans, blinded by the full reality of evil, thinking they were doing good but dispensing miseries far worse than the evil they thought to eradicate. The Crusades during the Middle Ages and the Vietnam War are examples that come to
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