In imago humani

In The Brothers Karamazov, one of the brothers, Ivan, is discussing his theological views with his brother Alexey. Following a certain popular phrase, Ivan states that he believes that if man created God, then man must have created God in his image. Alexey responds that if God was created in man's image, then the devil surely was as well.
What seems most puzzling of all is why we often times cease at explaining the movements of God, but we never have a hard time explaining the temptations of a devil. We puzzle why good people are plagued with injustices, but whenever an evil befalls a wicked man we state with self-righteous justice that "that man deserved what he got."
But the truth of the matter is, for all the praise and honor we give to philanthropic action, we are much more versed in misanthropy. Perhaps the reason why we laud those like Mother Theresa, Dorothy Day, Schindler, and others is because what they do is truly extraordinary. We are such connoisseurs of wretchedness that when we observe somewhat exhibiting truly magnanimous action we are astounded and stand in reverence.
Take, for example, Dante's Divine Comedy. The punishments of Hell are much more graphic, descriptive and moving than the toils of Purgatory or the blessings of Paradise. It may be argued that the reason why it is as such is because more men are afraid of going to Hell than of being punished in Purgatory. However, I think that the real reason is because we are so much better at tormenting humans than of simply putting them to toil, and much more than of rewarding them.
Think, for example: what great evil and misanthropic movements have taken place in the last few hundred years? Immediately we think of the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, Genocides, Slavery, Religious persecution in general, Internment Camps, Political Witchhunts, Real Witchhunts, etc. But, on the other hand, what great deeds of philanthropic magnitude have been wrought? Can we think of any movement, other than recovery efforts, that was not in response to the great injustices that we have brought about before?
But we don't have only terribly evil men to look at. Stalin and Hitler are not the only men who have mistreated humans in horrific fashion. Everyday, we walk by the poor in our streets, we turn a deaf ear to the cries of the politically oppressed and sometimes we go so far as to condemn people simply because they are from another part of the world. We are all masters of wickedness. We are all workers of evil. For every time we ignore the beggar, or spurn the homosexual, or flat out scorn the political prisoner from the Middle East, we are all displaying the truly voracious, despicable side to human nature.
Indeed, if there is a devil, he must have been made in the image of man.