Not exact matches
If you are indeed sincere in your attempt to dismantle the organization of the church, then may I suggest that that you might be getting your
ideas from that
evil one that
most desires to dismantle the church?
believing a higher power forgives you when you act
evil is the
most dangerous
idea in the world.
He may believe in God, believe that God is both good and powerful, and believe that God has a reason for permitting
evil — a reason for each specific
evil; but he may have nothing but the
most general
idea as to why God permits these
evils.
The two
most basic
ideas in this hope of the «parousia» are that the redemption of the world does not require the destruction of creation since creation is not itself
evil, and secondly that redemption must come from God since every human action remains with the contradictions of sin.30
The conclusion
most abhorrent to Niebuhr's critics was his
idea that the growth of man's possibilities for good carries with it the possibility of growth in
evil.
Whitehead's
most definitive treatment of discord as it relates to
evil is found in Adventures of
Ideas.
Thus, aspects of the
most barbarous past become elements of an infinitely respectable «culture,» since the only truly
evil thing today is to think and act according to the
idea that one form of life is better than another.»
And it has everything to do, I suggest, with four themes that arise from the modern expression of Ockhamite nominalism: the deterioration of the
idea of freedom into willfulness, the detachment of freedom from moral truth, an obsession with «choice,» and the consequent inability to draw the
most elementary moral conclusions about the imperative to resist
evil.
Unlike
most Marvel villains, who have little nuance as far as their
evil intentions, Killmonger has a rationale for his malevolent acts, and a certain sympathy beyond this, that makes the film more a struggle for political
ideas than it is just a black - and - white fight between good guys and bad guys.
It also briefly raises the intriguing issue of how you can reboot a civilization to prevent the mistakes of the past, but spends
most of its time on chases, explosions, zombies,
evil scientists, and, as in all movies of this genre, the
idea that hot teens are all that can save us.
Despite letting some of its
most compelling aspects die off, The
Evil Within is still worth a shot for bringing some unique
ideas in the first place, and giving us a new way to think about survival horror.
In «Experiencing the Banality of
Evil in «Papers, Please»», Scott Juster mentions how moments like these in Papers, Please are meant to reinforce the
idea that, in real life, and often in the
most tragic circumstances, immoral acts are committed when morality falls to the whims of bureaucracy.
At a point when a series like Resident
Evil has largely long turned its back on its survival horror roots, ZombiU is a game that recalls such games, but also brings its own interesting and inventive
ideas to the genre and, at the same time, has the distinction of being one of the
most interesting launch titles that, whilst not perfect, is an absorbing and unnerving experience that succeeds at making use of the capabilities of the system, without ever managing to feel gimmicky and, as such, it's a strong early demonstration of the magic of Wii U.