A member of Congress wakes one night and finds Lucifer standing at the foot of his bed and staring at him. “What do you want?” he asks. “I want to give you everything you desire or could imagine,” Lucifer answered. “You’ll be reelected in every election. You’ll have a fortune beyond your wildest dreams, beautiful women, mansions, expensive cars, a yacht. You name it, and it’s yours.” The Congressman sat up in bed. “Wow, that sounds great! But what’s in it for you?” “In 24 years, you give me your immortal soul,” Lucifer replied. The Congressman was astonished, but then burst out laughing. “No, really, come on. What’s the catch?” That old joke, or its variations, speaks volumes about modernity. Like our ancestors, we still see evil in the world, but in our age of science, psychology, social science, and statistics we nearly always look to genetics, circumstances, or environment …