Sentences with phrase «of absolute evil»

Under the (literal) surface of a drab suburban development, it finds a soundproofed mad scientist's bunker, complete with a trap door straight out of a silent movie: a vision of absolute evil that somehow becomes more disquieting and suggestive as it becomes more obvious and literal.

Ms. Rowling is capable of remarkable shifts in tone, gliding from comic observations of daily life at Hogwarts to tremors of absolute evil with a sure, deft touch.

It is social realism as seen by Hieronymus Bosch, and if you are looking for a vision of absolute evil, the absolute repudiation of humanity, there are a couple of scenes here that will serve your purpose well.

In such cases, the only culturally available icon of absolute evil — a precious thing for any culture to possess — is dangerously debased.

There are, unfortunately, enough such people still around that, as Martin Malia concludes, it will be «a very Long March indeed before communism is accorded its fair share of absolute evil.»

Not exact matches

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.

Faced with the absolute evil of the Nazi attack, first on Jewish life and ultimately on human life per se, Greenberg was tempted to take Richard Rubenstein's approach and concede that the God of Israel was indeed dead.

For years I struggled with doubts about my faith, and through the emerging church movement, I found people who were asking the very same questions - about religious pluralism, the Problem of Evil, inerrancy, the notion of absolute truth, etc..

While all evidence, logic and reasoning point to a Creator and absolute truth, you prefer to hide behind relativism and a theory of evolution which does not, in fact, describe the creation of the universe at all, or why concepts of good and evil or morality exist.

As a man of Faith, I can tell you that I believe in Satan a much as I believe in God — for the very simple reason that I have encountered evil — utter, absolute, and in my face — but the spiritual dimension can not be taught — at all.

Thus, to conscript Prof. Smolin for the purpose of understanding Arkes, «while it is typical of skeptics that they see evil emanating from absolutes,» the warrant for that very judgment is one for which their skepticism can not account.

Secondly, even if there was some sort of risk from explanation, saying that evil maintains its absolute horror by being «unexplained» makes no sense either.

This is the only way evil maintains its absolute character of horror and irruption.

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vitaAbsolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vitaabsolute, or an immanent vital force.

We heard whole blocks screaming and we understood that Evil, fruit of a free and sovereign will, is, like Good, absolute....

The absolute affirmation of the self in the second stage of evil is an extreme form of man's hiding from the «signs» which address him.

Here again we are reminded of the absolute self - affirmation of the second stage of evil!

Based upon the absolute belief in the primacy of the spirit, it taught that only spirit is truly real; consequently such things as evil and pain really do not exist.

Although «here the eternal word is opposed by eternal contradiction,» this is not to be understood as a metaphysical statement implying the absolute and independent reality of evil.

Moreover, in situations where one faces relative rather than absolute evil, nonviolent resistance is the most promising instrument of success.

He will not see the Church as an armed camp standing opposed to the camp of the evil one, both on an equal footing and equally powerful and equally absolute, both simply comprised within the unrevealed will of a God who fundamentally has remained silent about the ultimate meaning of this drama.

Evil is test of human choice, HE has power over hindu Lucifer ism, filthy secular ism of every thing, but HE honors HIS promise to human of their authority, HE will like human to defeat hinduism denial of truth absolute by himself.

Provine blamed the scientific establishment itself for misleading the public about the absolute incompatibility of contemporary Darwinism with any belief in God, designing forces, or absolute standards of good and evil.

Since the nature of God is absolute good, and everything is God - Substance, there can be no evil in reality.»

The difference was the tone of the book; its stridency, its confidence, its absolute certainty that religion is the root of all evil.

Communist evil, Niebuhr said, resulted from its monopoly of power (absolute power over other men producing evils worse than injustice), its utopianism (attribution of the source of evil to something outside man — private property), its faith in revolution (a substitute religion), and its dogmatism (ideology masquerading as science).

Authors in this camp clearly establish the view that the power of evil is limited, and that the power of good (or God) is the absolute authority which sets the limits.

She saw modern Catholic experience as Manichaean — the dividing of human experience into areas of absolute good and absolute evil.

«The doctrine of absolute non-resistance to evil is not enunciated here: the issue is one of individual conduct in specific circumstances» (Hill, p. 127).

So far did this Calvin of the Old Testament carry his rigorous logic that he denied the possibility of inheriting evil's consequence and asserted that absolute justice is done to all individuals here and now in this present world.

Assuming the omnibenevolence of Whitehead's God (that God wills the best for each actual occasion), in order for all evil to be merely apparent, there has to be an absolute conformity between God's will and what transpires in the actual world.3 For if the actual world fails to conform to God's aim, then actualizations will have occurred in the place of which other actualizations would have been better.

Atheists overstate the case when they accuse organized religion of all or the bulk of humanity's true mass evils, but organized religion forms a natural class with other fanatical belief systems that demand unwavering faith in absolutes.

Hence, the dominance of destructive discord, but not destructive discord in itself, is evil in an absolute or unequivocal sense.

Again, a realistic estimate of man requires the establishment of democratic political mechanisms; man is good enough to govern himself, but evil enough that no individual or group can be trusted with absolute power.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

don't forget the absolute evil perpetrated by those who so resolutely looked to push all religion our of their societies... the Nazi's, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists... I'm not really one to toss out numbers w / o some good backing, but I would venture a guess that those 3 20th century areligious governments killed way more than the Catholics and Crusaders did.

Goodness means that no matter what we think the end result is better than we could imagine because it is an absolute good with the presence of evil.

But it may also be the case, perversely enough, that it was in part the inexpungible stain of his involvement in such absolute evil that forced him to contemplate the nihilism of his age with such untiring persistence.

Married 29 years — I am Christian and have never had a problem in the passion department — never felt guilty for returning to the Garden of Eden with my husband as a respite from this evil world — I've always found absolute joy and satisfaction with him — and I still think he's the hottest guy around — thank You Jesus for giving me this awesome blessing

In the design document for Metal Gear Solid 2, written in the months following MGS's success, there is a section explaining the concept of «Absolute Evil in MGS2.»

Eschewing CG entirely, in favour of sticky, stretchy, horrendously grubby practical effects and enough blood to drown on, Evil Dead 2013 is an absolute carnival of slaughter.

The movie's premise is primal: the fear of the dark versus the absolute necessity of light as protection from not just evil made flesh, but philosophical evils, too — mythologies and beliefs and certain quailings of spirit made silly by any illumination.

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As Sister Bridget, the head nun, Geraldine McEwan gives a very memorable and chilling performance that's reminiscent of Louise Fletcher's Nurse Ratched from «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» in it's absolute personification of evil and Eileen Walsh is heart - breakingly compelling as the naive, downtrodden and religiously devoted Crispina.

The sequel to 2009's Africa - set Resident Evil 5 is an absolute beast of a game, offering one of the largest single player campaigns in recent memory.

Carrying behind it the legacy of Hideki Kamiya whose resume includes: Resident Evil 2, Devil May Cry, Viewtiful Joe and more, Scalebound is an absolute favorite and definitely one that's going to take the industry by surprise.

Kalypso Media unleashes absolute evil once again with the first of three new Dungeons 3 DLC packs — the first of which arrives in February to a

Available on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition is an absolute treat to play; one that console owners should immediately consider adding to the library of their system of choice.

He messes around with time by presenting superheroes who are pitted against figures of historical evil — it makes you think about the complexity of good and evil as he questions whether they're absolute.

Given the absolute rock - solid stance of «everybody» on this site that scientific research is by definition good, I'm amazed at how «everybody» is not saying, but blindly screaming (ie, it's emotional in such an extreme that the mind becomes impervious to logic) that studying GE is evil, evil, EVILLLLLLL.....