See evil for what it is…

Evil is in no way part of God’s good purpose, and cannot be, since it does not have existence as a created good. Evil is neither rationally nor morally intelligible and must simply be loathed and resisted. The beginning of resistance is not to explain, but to see. Seeing is itself a form of action — seeing evil for what it is, not a part of God’s plan, but a colossal x factor in creation, a monstrous contradiction, a prodigious negation that must be identified, denounced, and opposed wherever it occurs.—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 434 (emphasis original)