Publication date: 2025.12.10 What is darkness? What about insanity? What is chaos and entropy? What is evil? Darkness is the lack of light, it is not a thing, but a lack of a thing. A man doesn’t obtain or grow insanity. When insane he lacks sanity. Chaos is a lack of order, **dis**order. A murderer is a person who lacks something, a thing that seems like a component of humanness. A person who hates another lacks love. A fool is a person who lacks wisdom. Evil is not a thing, it is a lack of a thing. It is the lack, a cavity of God. Is it a coincidence that in the bible God identifies as light? > 'The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. ' > > [John 1:9](https://www.bible.com/bible/111/JHN.1.9) Considering the supernatural amounts and levels of symbolism in the bible, I can’t consider this a coincidence. Looking at evil as a lack of God provides a crucial and useful paradigm shift. It also resonates perfectly with the idea that death entered the world when humans first sinned, disobeying God and introducing an action that lacked God into the world, thus tainting that world with a certain lackness alongside the punishment. That lackness is evil, which God did not “create” since it’s not a direct creation, but a concept of lackness. To further strengthen this idea, I remember a fun experiment. Physics sets a clear limit on how fast things can travel through space, it is the speed of light in a vacuum. However, if you shine a laser pointer onto the moon and move it around, that laser would seem to be traveling faster than the speed of light across the moons surface. Is this the laws of physics being broken? No, because the thing that is moving isn’t a thing traveling through space, though it appears to be. It is natural for humans to visually identify that dot as a thing and to interpret that movement as the physical movement of that object, but here it is not an actual object, it is a visual concept. The actual light that comes out of the laser is traveling through space at light speed. --- #theology I was introduced to this idea by listening to online seminars and podcasts of Bishop Barron, I recommend them to you aswell.