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In “Spiritual Renewal and Modern Choral Music,” Michael De Sapio praises the...
We prefer to think that evil is something “bad people” do, and that these bad people are easily recognizable. We see a mug shot on the news and say “Oh, he looks like a child molester, like a mass shooter, like a serial killer, like a bad person. Or as often as not today we think of evil as that perpetrated only by our political opposites. We describe such people as “inhuman” or “deplorable”, descriptors that gives us the relief of distance. The guise evil wears is, of course, always that of someone else.
The Guardian: “Westminster Abbey’s plans to dedicate a memorial to P.G. Wodehouse 43 years after his death have been welcomed by the Wodehouse Society.”
Keep in contact with real things — the actual people around you, the actual place where you live, the actual God who underpins and suffuses all — and you’ll be inoculated against relativism.
