Evil

Looking at Jesus and the demoniac in Mark 5 (there is so much there) and realizing we can't deal with it all i want to post various "extra material"...

Why such darkness among us?
Andrew Delbanco begins his book The Death of Satan:
“A gulf has opened up in our culture between the visibility of evil and the intellectual resources available for coping with it….The repertoire of evil has never been richer. Yet never have our resources been so weak. We have no language for connecting our inner lives with the horrors that pass before our eyes in the outer world….We no longer have a conception of evil as a distributed entity with an ontological essence of its own….Yet something that feels like this force still invades our experience, and we still discover in ourselves the capacity to inflict it on others.”