On target, Os Guinness has some excellent observations about the causes and miscues regarding evil in our world.

From a recent interview with Jen Waters of the Washington Times (via the Pearcey Report)…

More recently, we have a generation of postmodernism, so that in some circles there is the bizarre idea that it’s worse to judge evil than it is to do evil.

Sounds just like many liberal attitudes infecting the U.S. media.

Guinness goes on to say …

In some circles today, there is almost a litany that religion is the problem. Gore Vidal argued at Harvard in 1992 “the great unmentionable evil at the heart of our culture is monotheism.” Many said the same after 9/11. As Christopher Hitchens put it, “the real axis of evil” is not Iran, Iraq and North Korea, but Judaism, the Christian faith and Islam. This is simply factually wrong. On the one hand, in the last century alone more people were killed by secularist regimes, led by secularist intellectuals, and in the name of secularist ideologies than in all the Western persecutions combined. In fact, atheistic communism killed more than 100 million people alone, more than all the persecutions in Western history combined. On the other hand, monotheism is the most innovative and influential belief in all human history — for example, its significance for the rise of science and human rights.

This idea that religion is the problem seems to be very trendy of late. My observation has been that there are only two religions that are targeted as problems; Christianity and Judaism. Given my understanding of the Bible it would be consistent that those two faiths would be the subject of attack, which further underscores the truth residing in its pages.

Os Guinness has a new book on the subject of evil called, “Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror.” The always insightful Guinness should make this book worth reading.

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Incidentally, lots of bloggers are taking note of the launch of the new Pearcey report, by Rick and Nancy Pearcey, including Mark Tapscott, Adrian Warnock, Touchstone Mag, Magic Stats, A-Team, Stones Cry Out, Writing Right, doulos2k and others.