Philosopher Hannah Arendt is said to have coined the phrase “banality of evil” upon her shock at seeing Nazi Adolf Eichmann at his trial and observing how average and normal he appeared.
I think it is like this in the spiritual world in general: The face of evil will not always be like the Joker in the Batman movies. So do not look for it there. The evil that God decries and that He will finally punish with hell fire will be something far more commonplace and sympathetic, so that the majority of people do not recognize it.
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