Sentences with phrase «people doing evil things»

With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.

Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.

Without religion, the world would be full of good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things.

I suggest you read you Bible, while there are evil people doing evil things, often at the behest of God, but more importantly, if you believe the Bible much of the evil comes from God himself.

«Without religion, we'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things.

@ 3rdMLNM: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.

@Raptor: With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.

And atheists claim that religion makes good people do evil things!

«Good people do good things and evil people do evil things, but for an evil person to do good, you need the Code of Hammurabi», one of the original lists of «commandments» for humans.

We observe that no type of human is untouched — mentally unstable people do evil things, mentally sound people do evil things, artists do evil things, laborers do evil things, academics do evil things, business men do evil things.

The gang of boys I used to hang out with in Southwest Washington traded tall tales of places where white people did evil things to us, mostly in the South, where none of us had ever lived, nor wanted to.

People do evil things because they don't seem evil to them.

Not exact matches

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

Take away their ability to tax and inflate and so much of their power to do evil things to good people is gone.

If you worship an invisible god, you'd better damn well keep your religion invisible as well and quit using it as a justification for every evil thing you do to other people.

People have in themselves, to varying degrees, the ability to do things outside of the range of what another person, or society, would accept (the ability to do evil).

But for good people to do evil things, that requires religion.

In the meantime, evil people may do evil things, and innocent people may suffer, but God is not to blame, because he has sent his Son into the world to redeem it.

«With or without religion, good people will do good things and evil people will do evil things; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion».

workingcopy12 Not all evil, but even without religion good people would continue to do good things.

Sometimes we see people do things that are evil and we are like «how can they even do that.»

I don't believe it's evil, a scam, designed to control people, or any such thing.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

No person in history always does the most evil thing they can do in every situation.

You said, «To tell people they are ok before God when they aren't is about the most evil thing one could do.»

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

I don't believe that an evil supernatural ent.ity causes people to do bad things..

Hitler believed in god... atheism is NOT a religion... only a religion can get good people to do evil things.

You don't KNOW my mind, you don't KNOW that people do just as many good things as bad things, and you don't KNOW that the vast majority of human beings are certainly wrong about human evil.

And why does God permit white people to do evil things in the name of Jesus Christ?

The * natural * reaction is to demonize the aggressors; after all, as Edmund Burke and others have pointed out «the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.»

hippyfullofit, So by your thinking, I can not condemn someone as evil who cuts people up, packages the pieces, and puts them in the freezer, unless of course I have not done the same thing myself?

But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

When people use science to do evil things, they do it based on their own judgement.

many religious people are not Christians, and even Christians who are still only human get distracted by the flesh and do stupid or you could say evil things.

So we're at the place where we can say a couple - four things from the existential side of the problem of evil: [1] from the perspective that pain exists, and we perceive it, we as human beings (you could say «people») have an urge to do something about it when we see it.

But what makes the lack of love even more heretical, is that a lack of love often leads religious people to do horrendous and hurtful things «in the name of Jesus,» which makes these actions not just heretical, but satanic and evil.

It is dangerous to believe in «evil spirtis, demons» etc. since belief in that which there is no evidence for sometimes causes people to do stupid things, like try to remove whatever spirits someone thinks are there.

There are many knowlegeable people who do evil things and there are less knowlegeable people who love, care, help people.

Good people will do good deeds, evil people will do bad deeds, but for good people to do bad thing you need religion!

The God of the Old Testament and Jesus are the same true God (in different persons) but it is not evil for God to tell other people to do evil things as long as he doesn't have to do it himself (something that is presented as hypocritical in the chief priests who would hire someone to betray Jesus but would not even touch the «blood money.»

If we say that the evil was inflicted by a person or persons then we have to confront the fact that * people * do bad things.

There are evil people who do evil things and can sometimes justify their actions through religion but that doesn't make either the religion or its followers particularly evil because one man can twist it so he believes he can kill people.

Evil exists, whether it is demons, addiction, possessions, murder, greed... something motivates some people to do horrible things.

First, my fault finding with the quote was not that good people can do evil because of religion, but rather in the exclusivity of the statement,» But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.»

ddeevviinn There are good people (including atheists) who have done bad things, of course, but truly evil things are probably a different matter entirely.

To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes from Steven Weinberg: «With or without religion, good people will do good things and evil people will do evil things; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion». . .

In fact, I would go further and say that if one person does something evil, and another person does the exact same thing but does it in the name of Jesus Christ, the second action is way more demonic and evil than the first.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

The sad thing about religion is while there are some truly good people in them there are some truly evil people fostering hate and bigotry and the good people mostly sit on their hands and do nothing.