Handle with Care
This is a dangerous book.
I have written it because I believe it is needed. I believe its over-all effect will be healing.
But I have also written it with trepidation. It has potential for harm. It will cause some readers pain. Worse, some may misuse its information to harm...
Handle with Care
This is a dangerous book.
I have written it because I believe it is needed. I believe its over-all effect will be healing.
But I have also written it with trepidation. It has potential for harm. It will cause some readers pain. Worse, some may misuse its information to harm others.
I have inquired of several preliminary readers whose judgment and integrity I particularly respect: 'Do you think this book about human evil is itself evil?' Their answer was no. One, however, added, 'Some of us in the Church have a saying that even the Virgin Mary can be used for sexual fantasy.'
While this crude but pithy response is realistic, I do not find it gready reassuring. I apologize to my readers and to the public for the harm this book may cause, and I plead with you to handle it with care.
One meaning of care is love. Be gende and loving with yourself if you find what is written causing you pain. And please be gende and loving with those neighours you may come to understand as evil. Be careful—full of care.
Evil people are easy to hate. But remember Saint Augustine's advice to hate the sin but love the sinner.* Remember when you recognize an evil person that truly, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'
In labelling certain human beings as evil, I am making an
*Saint Augustine, The City of God, ed. Bourke (Image Books, 1958 ed.), p.
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