‘The sheer power and enormity of it is frightening.’

Thought for the week: Noël Staples says the evil is in the detail

by Noël Staples 21st August 2020

Like beauty, evil is in the eye of the beholder. Nothing in the universe is intrinsically evil, any more than there is anything which is intrinsically beautiful. Five miles above the Earth’s surface, the universe is inimical to humans. But we would not call it evil any more than we would call William Blake’s ‘Tyger’ evil, given opportunity and appetite. Things are only beautiful or evil as we perceive them to be.