When Good Becomes God: How Our Greatest Gifts Lead to Our Fall

The real-life drama is not in renouncing evil but in renouncing the good that we have made ultimate.

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Richard Rohr points out that the easiest way to distract people from the real battle is to show them a spectacle. In a spectacle, the field is divided into “us and them.” The evil is always out there, clearly demarcated.

“The spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has the least to do with the art of poe…