Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:21

Here is what that looks like:

The miracle of the Resurrection of Christ has reverberated through my soul, liberating it from the darkness of a tendency where hate and intolerance in before the “other”, condemning it uncritically as an “enemy”, and ascending to love and respect for one’s “neighbor”, who is always and in any case a person; thus my mind has been released from the obscurantism of an ideology which legitimates lying and dissimulation, the violent death that leads to homicide and suicide, blind submission and tyranny – permitting me to adhere to the authentic religion of Truth, of Life, and freedom. Upon my first Easter as a Christian I have not only discovered Jesus, but I have discovered for the first time the true and only God, which is the God of Faith and Reason …

This is how we, as the church, overcome Islam and violence and decadence and marriages that won’t work, and selfishness. We focus on and center our lives around the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nothing else has that power.