I always thought of evil as unfavorable condition or situation. The 'forces' some people believe cause evil are not real. Evil is a real word that can be used to describe an unfavorable condition or situation, though.
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What is evil and is it real?
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having jock itch is unfavorable but not evil. It requires a level of moral investment your definition seems to lack, IMO.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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A peeve of mine is that religion seriously thinks they're a better guarantor of morality than a secular society could be. The fact is religiosity or lack thereof is simply NOT an indicator of morality ... that's just an illusion.
I agree and don't gather my morals from the bible or my Religion. Those things help me objectively asses my subjective interpretations, but the initial belief isn't based off of it.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari (January 31, 2010 at 11:46 am)Welsh cake Wrote:(January 31, 2010 at 6:08 am)Zen Badger Wrote: So when bomber crews during the second world war dropped their weaponsEvil. But they didn't think they were being evil, they were doing it to protect their families and friends. Who in turn thought they were being courageous, because often they died in the course of those bombing missions. If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.
Because there is subjective morality, societal morality and God's nature. Objective references are pretty important to reality wouldn't you say?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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In my opinion, 'evil' is anything which goes against the basic goal of humanity to interconnect with one another as the 'whole of mankind.' I.E. politics, racial discrimination and division, religious division and so on.
I would correct that like this for my opinion
In my opinion, 'evil' is anything which goes against the basic goal of God to interconnect.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari 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 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
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