Michigan Watching the news can make it seem like we are collectively descending into hell. We've had the Oklahoma City bombing of a government office building, the bombing of a U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia, IRA bombings in England, particularly London, along with the burning of American churches, both Black and White churches, predominately in the south. And just now we are enduring the catastrophe of TWA flight 800 off the shore of Long Island. Those who are atheists often cite these litanies of horrors as reason enough for them to be atheists, reason enough to refuse to believe in God.
Evil is quite irrational, illogical, and inexplicable .
It's so easy to be kind, loving, forgiving, tolerant and caring. It takes energy to be hateful, spiteful, jealous, resentful, and mean-spirited. It takes a lot of energy for us to continually carry our resentments and bitterness toward others, particularly those right in our own homes. At bottom, aside from evils, pain and suffering caused by natural disasters, the evils inflicted by human beings on other human beings is grounded in egotistical lusts for power and control over others. Pride is the soil in which the seeds of evil are planted.