Wow. Some of these comments are just so... immature. Is there not a way we can civilly discuss our ideas and differences?
Must one side stoop as low as the other out of compulsive offense?
Some of ya'll need to consider the source and not just think you're more mature than that, but practice it as well.
I feel like a mom, geez.
There is no such thing as 'good' or 'evil' there are only circumstances and the effects that they have on said individuals.
Unfavorable things can happen to one person that has a positive effect on another person. This is life.
It is these actions that have caused us to tie mystical properties to occurrences in our life and find a divine meaning behind them. As human beings we are a curious lot. We also find patterns in our daily life. It's these patterns and circumstances that have helped our brain develop into what it is now. But, despite the misconception that evolution creates a perfect product, we are not evolved as to where we could be. Our minds still struggle with morality, mystical thinking and lack of leadership.
tl;dr
Our evolution is the cause of these questions and the lack of mental power to conquer them. Evil and Good do not exist outside of the mind. These age old beliefs have caused us to create religion at an early part of our evolution when our minds were even more naive and impressionable than they are now. The results? Religions that are from multiple authors that contradict each other, mass relation and storyline/plot redundancies, Holy Wars, Genocide, emotional/physical torment/torture.
But humans don't need religion to bite each others head off. There are plenty of other things we can disagree about.
Must one side stoop as low as the other out of compulsive offense?
Some of ya'll need to consider the source and not just think you're more mature than that, but practice it as well.
I feel like a mom, geez.
There is no such thing as 'good' or 'evil' there are only circumstances and the effects that they have on said individuals.
Unfavorable things can happen to one person that has a positive effect on another person. This is life.
It is these actions that have caused us to tie mystical properties to occurrences in our life and find a divine meaning behind them. As human beings we are a curious lot. We also find patterns in our daily life. It's these patterns and circumstances that have helped our brain develop into what it is now. But, despite the misconception that evolution creates a perfect product, we are not evolved as to where we could be. Our minds still struggle with morality, mystical thinking and lack of leadership.
tl;dr
Our evolution is the cause of these questions and the lack of mental power to conquer them. Evil and Good do not exist outside of the mind. These age old beliefs have caused us to create religion at an early part of our evolution when our minds were even more naive and impressionable than they are now. The results? Religions that are from multiple authors that contradict each other, mass relation and storyline/plot redundancies, Holy Wars, Genocide, emotional/physical torment/torture.
But humans don't need religion to bite each others head off. There are plenty of other things we can disagree about.
