Confronting Evil Assessing the Worst the Worst

The concept of evil is universal, ancient and ever present today. The Biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. Evil is a choice to make another suffer. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by. Confronting Evil recounts the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. The Roman Emperor Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the nineteenth-century slave traders and the twentieth-century robber barons. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Collectively, these warlords, Tyrants, businessmen, and criminals are directly responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of people. By telling what they did and why they did it, confronting evil explains the struggle between good and evil. A choice every person in the Judeo Christian tradition is compelled to make. But many defer. We avoid the life decision. We look away. It's easier. Prepare yourself to read the consequences of that inaction.