We would all agree that evil is to be rejected and overcome; the only question is, how? How can we stand against evil without becoming a mirror-but denied-image of the same? That is often the heart of the matter, and in my experience is resolved successfully by a very small portion of people, even though it is quite clearly resolved in the life, death and teaching of Jesus. [Jesus gives us] a totally different way of dealing with evil—absorbing it in God (which is the real meaning of the suffering body of Jesus) instead of attacking it outside. It is undoubtedly the most counterintuitive theme of the entire Bible.
Richard Rohr Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, p. 143-145.