Is it because people don't understand that actual evil exists outside of movies? That there are extreamly powerful people in the world that will throw babies into fires because they believe in occult entities? This is not imaginary.
We live in a world where very evil people exist in high places, but also a world where many more good people exist, but usually not in as powerful positions.
> "there are extreamly powerful people in the world that will throw babies into fires because they believe in occult entities"
What makes you believe that is in any way prevalant? Maybe I'm an optimist, but it seems hard to believe that throwing babies into fires is considered okay, even at the highest social echelons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
The closest phenomena we have in modern world is suicidal jihadism, but its practicioners generally cannot be described as extremely powerful, even if they managed to tire out Western powers in Afghanistan.