Evil Still Exists

Over at Ricochet, Mollie Hemingway offers up an important point that tends to be purposely glided over today:  evil still does exist.  The media seems to have a propensity to call anyone who does anything that used to be regarded as an evil act as insane; this is especially true in the case of the Norway mass murdered Anders Breivick.  In Breivick's case, however, the worst charge the media could level against him was that he was a "Christian" (Ann Coulter promptly destroyed this argument here).  Here is more on the important distinction between evil and insanity:

I've noticed how quickly reporters try to claim that any terrorist is mentally imbalanced or alienated. In a world where everyone is diagnosed as mentally ill and we pathologize what used to be called sin or evil, this is what you do. It's so much easier to call someone crazy or a victim of a child abuse or something than to deal with their evil.

But a society that is incapable of properly responding to evil, to sin, is one that worries me. [Anders] Breivik didn't start the movement that he hoped to, thankfully, but evil people will use terror even more if we don't refute it and respond to it. Norway is choosing an easy route out of this, but at what cost?

The slow elimination of the idea of evil tacitly takes away any grounding of condemnation of any act, and instead, we are lead to sympathize with the perpetrators because of the environment they grew up in or their bad upbringing.