The death of the Moors murderer Ian Brady hasn’t brought out the best in us, has it? “Monster of the Moors is Dead” is the Daily Mail headline. “Burn in Hell, Brady”, the Mirror has it. “Monster Brady is Dead,” The Sun says.
Faced with evil incarnate, we derive palpable satisfaction from a good online and print lynching as a substitute for a physical one. It’s an instinct and a spectacle as ugly as it is human, and diminishes those caught up in it. For Christians, the thing is different: the Moors murderer has gone to the God who made us all, and who hates nothing that he has made.
