In the shadow of the Virginia Tech massacre, Chuck Colson's latest column talks about this disturbing trend in recent decades to call criminals "sick" instead of "evil." Chuck should know something about this, having served time in prison himself, and having founded the prison ministry Prison Fellowship.
From TownHall.com:
We are uncomfortable attributing events like this to human evil, much less to a kind of evil that seeks to undo God's creation—what Christians call the demonic.
We think of sin and the demonic as not-so-quaint relics from a superstitious age. And even more destructive, random events like this remind us how little we know about ourselves and what we are capable of, as well. But failing to call evil evil misleads us about the world we live in and our need for God's grace, the only real answer and hope for any of us.
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