we can never wholly avoid if we are to counter its power) are always false to the extent that they invariably try to find a place for that which has no place. To worship God truly entails the realization that God can be assigned no place in creation, because God claims every place; by contrast, to reckon with evil is to recognize that it deceives us (and thereby leads us to deceive both others and ourselves) precisely when it would have us give it a place that it cannot rightly claim as its own.