Trust Your Disgust

Sometimes sin has so scrambled our reason that we not only whistle past the graveyard but organize a whole parade to dance by the tombs (and demand everyone celebrate with us). Yet notwithstanding what philosopher Peter Kreeft has called our “spiritual insanity,” we all remain creatures created in the image and likeness of God who, as such, have both an attraction to good and a repugnance to evil embedded in our spiritual and physical nature—a nature that we can suppress and mutilate, but never extinguish.