In a CBS News 60 Minutes interview, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was asked why she had resigned as an Assistant District Attorney for the Bronx. She replied, "Because for the first time in my life I saw evil first hand and I felt that if I stayed that close to it, it just might rub off on me."[1] Come think with me about an age-old human affliction that has impacted the life of every person ever born and the two people who were not born but created in the Garden of Eden, a thing called evil. Justice Sonia Sotomayor feared that it might rub off on her.

Let me ask you a question: Have you ever encountered evil? Do you know anything about the machinations of evil? In his book People of the Lie,[2] the late American psychiatrist Scott Peck discusses evil. According to Dr. Peck, …