Sentences with phrase «if evil is»

How blurred is the line between the two, and if evil is necessary for good to prevail, has good actually won out in the end?

========== @LinCA: «If evil is the result of free will, and your god created free will, then your god is directly responsible for evil.

If an evil is the foreseeable consequence of my action, but indirectly intended, it is morally licit to cause the evil.

After all, if evil is the foreseeable consequence of my action it is intended in the broad sense of (1).

If all evil is seen as good in God's eyes, what's the difference what we do?

If evil is a lack of direction, good is a finding of direction, of the direction toward God.

If evil is the predominance of I - It, good is the meeting with the Thou, the permeation of I - It by I - Thou.

If evil is relative, it's not simply relative OUTSIDE of humanity, but also within (across races, gender, ages, etc.).

None of the goods humans cherish, including the free exercise of religion, can flourish without a measure of civic peace and security If evil is permitted to grow, good goes into hiding.

2) if evil is relative, then compassion must be also.

It follows that if evil is nonetheless real, then atheism» i.e., the idea of the nonexistence of that evaluator or standard of evaluation» is not only an extraordinarily unappetizing prospect, it is also fundamentally untrue.

For instance, if evil is just the absence of good, like darkness is the absence of light, your argument bursts immediately.

It may very well be the intent of God to wipe all existence of evil from reality, even if that evil is man.

If evil is loose in the world, it is up to us to put a stop to it.

Thus in each case good and evil are bound together as they could not be if evil were an independent substance with an existence of its own.

If evils were not preserved as such, we would not be subject to their continuing destructive influences.

Not exact matches

But the reality is an ugly one, and even — and especially if — it complicates the picture some progressives have drawn of Israel as the evil oppressor, we should not ignore the truth.

Whether you are a master negotiator or think negotiation is a necessary evil, one thing holds constant — if you don't understand the basic components of an offer to buy a business, you'll be at a disadvantage.

Peikoff also helpfully answers the burning pop - culture question: If the movie E.T. is anti-adult and anti-science — as, by objectivist philosophy, it clearly is — does that make it inherently evil and irrational?

And it's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those things are incredibly messy and no one is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.

In a related issue, Google had to remove one of its «auto - complete» suggestions last year because a number of users found that if they started typing the words «Are Jews» into the search box, one of the recommendations was «Are Jews evil?»

Outside of being evil, of course, it doesn't really matter what if it is work, fitness, collecting stamps, gardening or almost anything.

If you think Wall Street banks are the essence of evil, reading his letter probably won't change your mind.

«If someone says something you disagree with, discuss the idea and fall short of discussing why the person who voiced the idea is dumb, selfish, mad, or evil.

So the next time you go over your paystub and see how far your gross pay has been adjusted to your take - home amount, take heart that it's probably the lesser of all evils, even if it doesn't feel like it.

«The widely shared if unvoiced assumption,» writes Tony Hiss, «is that the time we spend moving around, except during vacations and getaways, is a burden, a necessary evil, a delayed goal, something we have to put up with.»

But if you're seeing this strictly as a public relations move meant to distract us from the evils of Facebook, you need to turn off your computer for a while and go for a walk.

In most of business history, customer service was viewed as a necessary evil that didn't have a lot of repercussions if it was done poorly, or not at all.

But if this article was meant to convey an opinion (i.e. «We shouldn't export oil because higher pump prices are an unstoppable evil») then you might as well argue that we shouldn't export ANY goods because that causes the price of those good to go up at home.

If dual class structures are so evil, why doesn't; t that apply to companies regardless of country.

Sometimes that's a necessary evil if you're getting much better financing, but it's not necessarily the most cost - effective option.

So go ahead and dump those BadCoins... but if there is a chance the BadCoin developers are sophisticated and evil, move your GoodCoins first.

The carry trade, derivatives and massive injections of money created out of thin air are but nails in our coffins and if we do not stop these evil people it will mean destruction.

That may, however, be the lesser of two evils if the alternative is seeing your Social Security check shrink.

22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Essentially, Clive Palmer is what most of us would be like if we were billionaires five times over (he's working on a recreation of the Titanic too) and has decided to use his money neither for good or for evil, but for fun.

I see no way that ignorance and truth can be placed side by side, nor do I believe that evil is somehow less evil if the Bible is quoted to justify it.

If you are looking for evil types of atheist, go after the Ayn Rand followers.

Even if they were evil.

If any movie in 3 parts can be generalized as Good - Evil - Good, then it must be about the triumphant resurrection of Heebuh - Jeebus!

Stone reminds us that violence is not always, absolutely evil, concluding that «the transformation of the motive» toward an increasingly virtuous object reframes the story, making the violence more «meaningful, if not fully justified.»

Maybe evil is the work of the devil, but if god is so great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?

Because if god was «only goodness and light» then all the evils he lets happen make him a even more sadistic being then the worst «sinner» on earth.

Even if we're only talking «evil» on a less horrific level — incarcerated criminals — we find the number of atheists and agnostics well below their demographic percentage of the population as a whole.

Well, I don't know if Obama has any tattoos, or skims money off the collection, or told anyone lately that they're evil and going to hell just because they disagreed with them, or has ever cheated on his wife with another woman, or man, so maybe he isn't your typical pastor, is that what you're saying?

Even if international tribunals, especially the ICC, were to meet with greater success in arresting arch-human-rights violators, deterring future violators, and bolstering the rule of law, they would remain morally unsatisfying as a response to massive evil.

think about this: if God were to remove all evil from this world, he would have to remove free will.

The hypocrisy of the religious zealots is revolting, they speak as if their history is pure as the driven snow and that people like me are the evil ones.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Even if a «Christian» folks committed aweful acts, which they did, do, and will, that's a far cry from all Christians being evil.