The greater evil is learner attention span — expecting your learners to spend a lot of time on their mobile phones to learn something new is expecting way too much.
Laws has previously been sceptical about wealth taxes but - if reporter Robert Watts is correct - the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury has decided that
the greater evil is leaving low earners to struggle on through one of the nastiest income squeezes of modern times.
But note that
this greater evil is variously identified — by some, as the spread of communism; by others, as the exploitation of the Third World by the capitalist nations.
Religion's greatest evil isn't violence or bigotry, but complacence and sanction of refusal to take personal responsibility.
The great evil is that once a contestant answers yes (or once the answer is shown by the polygraph to be yes), then the secret is set loose, and what was simply a powerless, hidden thought takes on a new reality.
A great evil is afoot in Chicago, and it may be connected with the pope's impending visit, which is advertised with signs reading, «He is coming.»
Be warned people,
great evil is afoot, and it will appear dressed in a long white silky gown wearing a two horned miter!
A fellow - traveler in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too, thought that
the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.
People need to decide what
the greatest evil is; MPs having second jobs or the rise of the professional politician with little experience of the world outside politics.
Not exact matches
Taking a break from processed foods, alcohol, sugar, and other food «
evils» may sound like a
great idea, but it
's a slippery slope into territory that experts say could damage your mental health and / or become the catalyst for an eating disorder.
One desperate solution
was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the
greater of two
evils, in the hope that he would
be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.
It can transform meetings from a painful and necessary
evil to a more open, enjoyable, productive exchange — the place where
great ideas
are born or refined.
These bonds
are stronger than the forces of hatred and
evil and these bonds grow even stronger in the hours of our
greatest need.
The
greatest discomfort for us
is that in speculative, overvalued, overbought, overbullish markets, we'll often look like idiots, lose credibility, and later recover a flood of followers who
were bloodied in a completely predictable collapse that makes us look like
evil geniuses.
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.
I think one of the
greatest problems facing any person of belief
is the problem of
evil.
Maybe
evil is the work of the devil, but if god
is so
great and powerful, why can't he stop all the madness?
There
are two
great evils in this world... religion and politics.
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.
«The story about «spreading the faith by the sword»
is an
evil legend, one of the myths that grew up in Europe during the
great wars against the Muslims — the reconquista of Spain by the Christians, the Crusades and the repulsion of the Turks, who almost conquered Vienna.
Well it
is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that
are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it
is either you
are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this
evil... But many
are just pretending to
be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There
is another type of possessions and that
is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man
is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions
are when you come through a
great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That
's why there
are prayers to
be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most
evil ones
are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that
is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have
been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this
is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
The celebration of Satan
is much worse than abortion, as it
is the
greater evil.
In 2016, he said that God had
been «unjust with his son,» announced his prayer intention to build a society «that places the human person at the center,» and declared that inequality
is «the
greatest evil that exists.»
Why can we not speak the truth and admit that Islam
is perhaps the
greatest evil the world has ever known, and act accordingly.
This country
is in the state that it
is in because of secularism — the
great evil of our time.
You might say that it
's different because a department store
is probably a
great evildoer, but even
evil corporations support many many families and keep them sheltered from the winter.
The tide
is going to turn and there will
be a
greater evil because justice
is perverted.
The
greatest driving force of
evil I can fathom,
is the force that judges in a fog of xenophobia and demands the slaughter of all those who will not bend to your will.
Leaving Muslims in darkness
is greater evil than causing wars.
Evil had become so
great upon the face of the earth, that a return to the pre-creation chaos
was inevitable.
An example of the comments they
were referring to
was a tweet sent on 1st March 2013 from Dawkins saying «I think Islam
is the
greatest force for
evil in the world today.
Morally, as Ruether has noted, the individual
is ambivalent, fundamentally good but capable of
great evil; consequently, a feminist critique must keep hold of a judging as well as an affirming dimension if it
is truly to respond to the human condition.
It
is simply false, therefore, to claim that Plantinga must view all
evils in the actual world as necessary for bringing about some
greater good or avoiding some
greater evil.
Rather than viewing conflict as the second
greatest evil, conflict
is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.
Plantinga need only acknowledge that the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the
greatest net amount of good over
evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God
was free to actualize.
Another condition of us
being in this life to experience a world of both good and
evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the
greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't
be done if
were all dead without any means to overcome death.
It
is very sad that the
evil actions of the weak wipe out the
great good of the many.
... Those who make a
great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of
evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes
are upon them, that watch for their halting; their character
is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a
great deal of reputation to lose.
There
are many who believe that the
evils that have for some accompanied these
great advantages for others will soon
be reduced as the benefits of progress
are extended further and further.
But without some fixed sense of rightness how can one distinguish what
is monstrous,
evil or «not
great» from its opposite?
I
am of opinion this
is not when we misjudge a charismatic event and call it
evil, for elsewhere, «Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they
are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world,» (1 John 4:1), and «For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform
great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.»
After the
great flood, God promised Noah never again to curse the earth, but God's reason
was wonderfully arch: «For the imagination of man's heart
is evil from his youth» (Gen. 8:21).
To
be sure, the cracks in the realistic surface, the surrealism,
are far
greater than in parables in the «Primary World,» but the story
is still parabolic, for the transcendent unfamiliar, both good and
evil, operative in this tale works within the givens of this world.
Therefore, to become as «perfect» as our Heavenly Father, we must focus on the
greater questions: How do we give perfect impartiality of blessings upon those that
are evil and those that
are good?
Even if
evil and suffering
is a teaching tool, an all good God would only allow as much
evil or suffering as
is absolutely necessary, in order to achieve a
greater purpose.
That
's a
great piece of circular logic given you started out trying to prove atheist
are evil because Hitler
was an atheist.
There
is some sort of connection, I think, between the sons of God and daughters of men, and their offspring the Nephilim, and how all this relates to the
great evil that covered the earth and how Noah
was «blameless in his generations» (a very strange Hebrew phrase).
«But blessed
are you when they revile and persecute you ans say all kinds of
evil against you falsely for My sake.Rejoice and
be EXCEEDINGLY glad, for
great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who
were before you.
he
was able to overcome
great evil... he could beat a lesser
evil like Obama.
But, there
is of course a
great deal of
evil in the world, and if God
is indeed omnipotent, omni - competent, and omni - voluntarist, somehow God must
be responsible for that
evil either directly or — as theologians have phrased it — permissively.