As with the Pietà, an enemy has entered into our world and savagely attacked human beings, leaving us damaged and defaced. The image of God in us has not been completely lost or erased, but it has been marred and disfigured. Our enemy is not only outside of us. There is also an enemy within that threatens to undo us. George Saunders calls it “built-in confusions … somehow Darwinian.” The Bible refers to it by a simpler name: “sin.”
