"It's all good."

How many times have you heard this phrase? “It’s all good.” We’re bombarded with it. In our society today, we seem to be told that actions and ideas can be judged (if we must judge at all) on their level of goodness. Sure, some things might be better for some people than others, but “they’re all good.”

No.

That assumption denies the reality that evil exists. There are actions and ideas which aren’t just “not good.” They’re evil. They seek to destroy what is good. We can just pick up a newspaper and see evidence of this in our communities and in the world at large. I know I’ve seen my share this week. In order for us to challenge evil, and try to do good, we must acknowledge that it exists.

Google, through their famous declaration, “Don’t be evil,” makes the opposite faulty assumption. They imply that not being evil means one is good. We all know what happens to evil when good people do nothing.

Evil exists. Let’s call it by name when we see it, and deal with it in ourselves and our world.

That should be common sense.