The Greatest Evil

The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)

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O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world: We commend this nation to your merciful care.

God, we come to you today and plead your mercy. We lament the arrogance that keeps us blind to injustice and allows hatred to flourish unchecked.