The FBI Suspects

FBI Releases Suspect Pictures in Boston Bombing

"If you could reach down and pull out the heart of evil,

you would pull out your own heart."  

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

No getting around it.  The acts of terrorism in Boston were evil.  Whatever we call good in our lives and in this world is the opposite of the deliberate harm of human life. The Solzhenitsyn quotation gets to the heart of it--we are all capable of evil.  The Christian standpoint does not regard evil and good as equals:  "good transforms evil."  The power of God's goodness was declared at Creation--not a perfect world, but a world that is GOOD.  Evil was not created at the same time; it is a perversion, corruption of God's goodness by our free will.  The faces of these suspects could be any of us.  They happen to belong to two young men who believe for their own reasons that they were justified in what they did.  Goodness prevailed. People ran into the chaos and brought out the order of selfless care.  Goodness has always had the last word.