Will tagged me on the 123 Book Meme; I’m supposed to pick up the nearest book, flick it open to page 123, go to the 5th sentence, and quote the next three. Unfortunately I was left with politics:

Again and again one hears it said or implied that some people are simply “evil” and must therefore be locked up for a long time. Over against this, an older generation of liberal thinkers, alarmed at the thought that there might actually be such a thing as “evil” – which they thought had been banished by an act of congress and better drains – tried to insist that nobody was evil at all, merely misguided, and that the misguiding had been done by society as a whole, so that all of us were equally guilty. The political pendulum has swung between these two extremes: the one side seeking to lock up more and more of the population without realising that they were thereby creating universities of crime; and the other side trying to look the other way and pretend, with a fine suburban detachment, that everything is really all right after all.

From Evil and the Justice of God, by Tom Wright. I haven’t read it yet, so I’m not sure what he was getting at here. It’s certainly made me curious to actually read the book, especially if it’s the good bishop’s take on theodicy. If you like memes, consider yourself tagged. Remember, it doesn’t have to be theological, its just that the only thing between me and my theology shelf are comic books, and they don’t have 123 pages. So follow the instructions and link back here!