His Psalm 71 is instructive for he considers the very matter of evildoing, and in psalm after psalm his recourse is in prayer to God. |
Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing. |
The Lima press reacted with disbelief, and the case is under investigation as a possible coverup for more prosaic evildoing — death squads and cocaine traffic. |
All that has led to a kind of conspiracy overload in which many people shrug their shoulders at the most strident assertions of impending doom or dastardly evildoing. |
But there is a difference between treating evildoing as entertainment and struggling to understand why some moments of reflection — if not confession — do indeed mesmerize us, even if as only the blackest kind of humor. |
Armed with such awareness, we might be better positioned to oppugn instances of evildoing in our shared world. |