On recognizing evil, and what to do about it By David Yount Where I live in exurban Virginia, Satan gets a lot of cautious respect.
Life is dangerous enough, they reason, without flirting with ghosts and goblins.
Per capita, we have more executions in our state than any other. Lest you dismiss demonology out of hand, consider that exorcism has not gone out of style. The pope himself performed one just last year. Anyone who encounters evil finds it anything but abstract. Think of the Holocaust, Kosovo or Chechnya, or even road rage.