Where is not our badness, where no sin?

Do  we need the Evil Others, then
The” backward” countries we exploit for  oil
To take our badness, bear what is our sin?

For we are perfect, civilised, thinking
And they are children letting anger boil
Do  we need the Evil Others, then?

We ravaged the  whole world,  just to begin;
Created empires, stole the haul.
Where is not our badness, where not sin?

We demeaned their culture  and religion
Said that we were best and took their all.
Do we need an Evil Other, then?

We did all this with noble conviction
Forgot the lessons and the truth of Fall
Where is then our badness, where our sin?

Are we so sure that we  do sense the whole
And never hear the voice of God bewail?
We need the Evil Others,  our own twin
To bear our badness, our historic sin.