The more obscene a crime, the less visible it becomes

Evidence

Herein lies the irony: the more obscene the crime, the less visible it is. The human capacity for acknowledging religiously based evil is particularly tenuous. The crime is committed by those who appeal to religiously sanctioned absolutes to justify their behavior. Then it is condoned by those who base their response, in part, on religious stereotypes. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 77

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• XREF: connects to: The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 993