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Controversial at their time ("If a man has done evil during his life he must not be complimented in marble" was the view of the radical abolitionist Charles Sumner), they have become so once again in our own era.
He has done evil before, of course - it's hard to think of many characters more villainous than Chigurh from No Country for Old Men - but this tale of life at the world's end takes place in almost unrelenting darkness.
And we are told that the Wicked Priest, "in the sight of the Teacher of Righteousness and the men of his counsel," has been given by God "into the hands of his enemies to abuse with smiting that he might be consumed with bitterness of soul, because he has done evil against His elect".
But it does provide a way in which this life's injustices can be seen as not having had the last word victims in this life do not have to be eternally victims and those who've done evil won't get away with it.
Meaning we have done evil things.
As a result, during that silence in the chapel, they can encompass everyone in their prayers: those who have done evil, those victimized by evil, those who agree with them and those who disagree.
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Why does "evil" persist?
Stop doing evil".
"I think that you do do evil.
Why does evil so often win?
I do evil mothers," she laughs.
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