Do you believe in evil?

See, I can't wrap my head around the idea of some people being born evil - I just can't do it. It is difficult for me when I hear conversations regarding the evil amongst us - no, I don't see it. Yes, I see bad stuff happening all the time, the idea of evil possessing a person or a person being filled with evil - no, doesn't fit into my reality. One time I had a student whose parents performed an exorcism on their child because he was emotionally disturbed - except they believed he filled by the devil and the exorcism would cleanse him. This little fella was eight years old, weighed 40 pounds soaking wet, and he had a smile that lit up a room - then once and a while some internal stimuli would cause him to act out. He said he heard voices telling him to throw things, or to run away - though I can't say I believed that; I believe he said that because he was told he was filled with the devil - anyway, he went home on Friday one child and returned on Monday another child - He was never the same - It was his parents choice and their "right" to have this exorcism performed - I tried to report it to child welfare, not reportable, religious freedom. All that exorcism did was take the light out of this little boys eyes; his smile was never the same. I was never the same. Being raised Catholic, the teachings about the devil always bothered me; that and confession - if I was God's child why did I need a priest to hear my confession and relay my sins to God; I prayed to God all the time, why couldn't I just confess my sins to him - I did not like the intermediary. The Episcopalian Church does not require you to confess to a priest, you just confess to God - and that's that. Makes more sense doesn't it? Now God, in my eyes, he is the main man-everything comes from him and all we have is because of him-Was there and angel that went rogue and became the evil angel; does he possess people and fill spaces-So many people are in tough shape right now, economically times are tough and out of work; families are being separated, crime is up, domestic violence is up, a lot of bad things are occurring more frequently; Anyone who has the desire to prey on the weak, while the world is full of prime pickings - desperate people are easy to suck into any idea if it releases their stress or offers them freedom from responsibilities. Now, are the predators evil or just egomaniacs? Are the followers evil or just vulnerable? Serial killers are often the product of dysfunctional childhoods, were their parents evil - probably if you look back their parents were abused and the abuse goes back and back and back - where does the evil start? Wasn't it more likely, difficult circumstances or trying times created situations which shortened tempers and tolerance and cycles of abuse began? Or am I just being naive'? Am I just trying to refuse the concept of evil so I don't have to deal with it? Am I being the chicken, the weak one? Shucks, I don't know. Evil though, I don't buy it. God gave us free will, with our free will we make bad choices, awful, horrific - incomprehensible choices - Look around you - this world is in a really tough place, a lot of people are really struggling - so I figure more crime will occur, it is a function of the social/economic conditions - not evil. Poor choices made by desperate people during desperate times. What do you think? Is there within some of us, or all of us, evil?