Sentences with phrase «also moral evil»

There is reason to believe that the conceivability of evil, perhaps especially natural evil but also moral evil, impugns the classical doctrine of divine power and thereby shows that doctrine to be defective.

Not exact matches

Also, as Christians we are required to speak out against moral evils that leadership in our nation may legislate in favor of.

He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.

We can also see the root of why Haught finds it difficult to account for moral evil.

So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»

For example, granted that the evil acts of the Third Reich may have molded the moral beliefs of its citizens so that they became literally incapable of seeing the evil as evil, it is also the case that Nazism was itself possible only because of the willingness of individual Germans to have the nation's policies translated into fact.

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

Every act becomes to some degree a moral risk so that despite the possible (but also largely unknowable) purity of one's intentions, human guilt will often arise because of unexpected and evil results of one's acts.

To say this is also to imply that the tendency of philosophy, religion, and common sense to ascribe evil acts to the moral inferiority of the individual — summed up for all time in the extraordinary metaphor of «original sin» — is not a fundamental explanation.