Our battle with evil exposed in quake

Corruption leads to destruction ‒ Hatay, Turkey, February 8, 2023

Even after a century of war, terror and high-tech genocide, we are still inclined, in the Western world at least, to pretend to ourselves that the world has really become quite a pleasant place, with ‘evil’ merely a blip on the horizon with which we can deal easily enough.

However great the contrary evidence, this modern myth of the eradication of evil through ‘enlightenment’, leaving only a few minor mopping up operations (preferably in far-away places) before Utopia finally arrives, has taken such a hold on popular imagination that any idea of God having to do anything powerful and destructive to address the problem is regarded as far too drastic, far too dramatic. 

But none of the early Christians, and certainly not Jesus himself, would have colluded with this glossing over of the seriousness of evil. 

                                 — N.T. Wright in Revelation For Everyone (2011)

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