This conception of the difference between good and evil, and the consequences that follow from it, can be useful, I think, in distinguishing a Christian viewpoint on the matter from that of other religions and philosophies, but also in clarifying what it means to be ‘good,’ insofar as our notion of ‘goodness’ has been diluted, and watered down, not only in popular culture (where the word has become so sentimental and relative that it is almost meaningless) but also among Christians who have lost their grasp of theology, or who have never been taught its complexity.