RE: What is evil and is it real?
March 15, 2010 at 8:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2010 at 5:18 pm by Violet.)
Evil is both an individually defined concept and a social construct... as with good.
Things are made 'moral' and 'immoral' by a number of things... from things as apparently profound as murder in 'cold blood'... to things as psychotically trivial as to which color a person prefers. Morals can 'come from' agreeing with one powerful being's decrees (such as God or the Pope)... and they can come from fear as a result of a mob that follows similar 'ethics'.
God can apparently go against himself if the Bible if it's to be held literally. Luckily none of us do that anymore... right?
Edit reason: grammar errors that make me look like English is my second language :S
Things are made 'moral' and 'immoral' by a number of things... from things as apparently profound as murder in 'cold blood'... to things as psychotically trivial as to which color a person prefers. Morals can 'come from' agreeing with one powerful being's decrees (such as God or the Pope)... and they can come from fear as a result of a mob that follows similar 'ethics'.
God can apparently go against himself if the Bible if it's to be held literally. Luckily none of us do that anymore... right?
Edit reason: grammar errors that make me look like English is my second language :S
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
