But whatever the ultimate nature of these forces, the religious traditions of our civilization, it now seems to me, have grasped a most basic truth about how such forces -for good and for evil""act in the world. It no longer seems to me a primitive notion""but rather a factual reality""that there is a battle for the power to shape human affairs between the forces that weave things together well and those that tear things apart.
The traditional religious vision of "the struggle between good and evil" I now see as embodying deep insight, as a way of naming something quite real and most fundamental in shaping our destiny. And calling things by their right names is important -particularly for those things that are at once so difficult for us to grasp on the basis of our immediate and mundane experience and so vital to understanding what's happening in our world and what we are called upon to do to about it.
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