The boundaries between good and
evil are so blurry that we're left in a state of ethical ambivalence, and the setting rings so false that we just don't care.
Carbs are not
the evil they are so frequently depicted to be but too much of the wrong sort and the wrong time can cause you problems.
In an evolutionary perspective, however, the issue of
evil is so complex that to say that evil has its origin in God means something very different from what saying this means in nonevolutionary theologians such as the above.
It's no wonder, then, that cinema returns to stories centered on Nazis time and time again; it's easy to root for good over evil when
the evil is so extreme, so obvious, so utterly despicable as to be incomprehensible to any normal human being.
Soon prompted to experiment with an Ouija board by their sinister landlord, the unassuming party goers inadvertently unleash the murderous spirit of a demonic nun whose
evil is so powerful that it can not be contained to the spiritual realm.
For as the butt - kicking heroine sets about exacting her vengeance, the epic battle of good versus
evil is so undermined by cheesy special effects and corny dialogue that the spectacle adds up to an experience that is best described as laughable.
As such, the Empire is seen as much more of a peacekeeping, governing body than the conglomerate of pure evil we're so accustomed to.
Not exact matches
So it
's capturing
evil and unleashing good.
Does the Post believe that reporting on the government
is important, and that leaks
are a necessary
evil in order to do
so?
Most of these habits
are so normalized that we consider our dissipated hours and lives as something less than
evil.
«The whole point about behavioural analysis,» explained Peter St. John, a retired professor of international relations with expertise in aviation security, «
is that people can't intend
evil like bombing planes and
so on without showing some of it in their behaviour.»
Buying consensus and its
evil twin, buying dysfunction,
are so pervasive that many B2B professionals have come to accept it as the way things
are; the status quo.
So Musk
is funding the $ 1 billion nonprofit as a kind of do - good - not -
evil champion for the future of
AI.
So we
were like, «Let
's do a version of this where you can see people make mistakes, but it
's not because they
're 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 «
Evil Dead» series
is so consistently good that even the remake, «
Evil Dead,»
is solid.
Presumably, much of the criticism of tar - sand oil isn't that it
's so environmentally
evil that it
's ethically worse than, say, Saudi oil.
December 5: Google updates its search bar
so that there
is no longer an autocomplete that reads «
are Jews
evil.»
In 2013, the legality of digital currency
was still in question, with many predicting death and others going
so far as to call Bitcoin «
evil».
However, Peter Linsley of Ask.com and Sean Suchter of Yahoo agree that purchased links
are not necessarily
evil so long as they provide some sort of value and relevance to the user.
If dual class structures
are so evil, why doesn't; t that apply to companies regardless of country.
Are Cancer & Mental Health charities
so desperate for funds that they
're willing to consort with
Evil Banksters?
So go ahead and dump those BadCoins... but if there
is a chance the BadCoin developers
are sophisticated and
evil, move your GoodCoins first.
Take away their ability to tax and inflate and
so much of their power to do
evil things to good people
is gone.
At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which
was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the
evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on,
so I had the right antecedents too.
«Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee, to do any thing which thou knowest to
be evil;
so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience
is a continual Christmas.»
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.
Entirely too many careers, too much money, and too much of money's
evil twin, political clout,
are now involved: The discrimination state will not wither away,
so we all had best get used to it.
In doing
so, Hitchens summed up the mantras of the new atheism: that «faith
is a fairy tale», that it
is possible to
be «good without God» and that religion
is not just false, but
evil.
The fear of the great nothing
is too much for my mind to bear, and I can sleep at night by convincing myself that the absolute nothing we all face one day will instead
be full of happy choirs of angels, reward for any suffering I've endured, punishment of the wicked and
evil (it pains me to think those who cause
so much
evil will not suffer for eternity,
so hell
is a great comfort too), and that I'll get to see all those I currently miss since the death of friends and family
are so painful.
So what I
'm gathering
is that each atheist has their own religion where they determine what Good and
Evil is.
Many people believe along with the pacifists that war does indeed necessarily involve
evil actions and
so any attempt to impose a moral standard on our conduct
is doomed from the start.
It
is just as exploitative as giving crack away to a desperate pregnant woman
so you can guarantee her child
is forever enslaved to your
evil product.
What Hitchens wrote about the
evils of religion
was not
so much a scholarly argument, but more a wave of righteous indignation that levelled everything in its path.
Maybe
evil is the work of the devil, but if god
is so great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?
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?
I have
been called «un-American», «traitor», «monster», «
evil», «devil», «child - rapist», «devil - worshiper», and
so many more lovely things by your religion of love.
So, none of Romneys OUTRIGHT LIES and deceptions
are evil, but our OUTSTANDING President, who has pulled us out of the BUSH recession and who has not lied once and has withstood the bogus name - calling and bogus acccusations from uninformed fools such as yourself has «values of the devil»???
Is that because he tells the truth and happens to
be black?
aka the book written by man to control man... of course it has things that
are evil... u can only interpret the word of «god» by what u know around u cuz apparently he speaks like nostradamus
so man hears peace and love and changes it to bigotry and war
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.
Let's not forget what and how America
was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to
so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of
being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE)
are evil unless proven otherwise.
In reply, pacifism insists that all war
is evil — that it
is hell,
so we must stay the hell out of it.
Hashem does not accept any of those acts of
evil to begin with,
so your point
is irrelevant.
Basically the above poster disagrees with what you wrote
so you
are now an atheist (read
evil).
I
was filled with an overwhelming sense of hatred of
evil and anger at our indifferent world that
so allows its children to
be abused.
So, let's see, before we go any further,
is your god benevolent in nature, or
evil, or simply disinterested?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master,
so he can remove an
evil force from your soul that
is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib
was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense
Giving or taking access to items doesn't matter (
so long as the item itself isn't
evil) but a firearm
is nothing but a tool... no different than a hammer or a saw... using it for self defense
is openly condoned by the Bible.
So Pat Robertson advised one of his viewers who wondered if there
were evil spirits in her thrift store clothing that... well... better safe than sorry... cast those demons out!