Evil exists but it isn't some nefarious supernatural entity. Evil is a human trait, a malevolence against a person's species typically. As humans our superstitions have long given us a need to demonize things. Evil became an entity within itself, not simply a generalization of acts we consider beyond human, or so repulsive that they shouldn't be human. Evil doesn't haunt a house, or anything ridiculous like that. If a man knowingly sends multitudes to their deaths for his own personal gain, then that is evil, etc. It's humanity that is evil, not the boogeyman.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
