I think it helps when you come from a culture that lost WWII, saw the dramatic collapse of their economy, found they had murdered millions of people and did
so much evil in the name of «science».
It's sort of like when firebrand liberals call Bush «Hitler» — totally ridiculous, he's nowhere near as intelligent or powerful as Hitler, and not
so much evil as stupid.
First things first the theme has obviously changed massively, swapping over from playing as a bunch of people trying to cure deadly diseases to a bunch of people trying to stop cultists from summoning the dreaded Old Ones, beings of immense power who aren't
so much evil as just sort of oblivious to our existence and plight.
Don't expect Fu Manchu to die so conveniently when there's still
so much evil to perpetrate.
He no longer wants to be Darth Vader, so maybe he doesn't have to commit
so much evil.
They're not
so much evil as naïve.
The letter reads in part «I acknowledge the fact that preceding governments in Kogi State did
so much evil and wrong to the people.
This would be funny if not for the fact that religion is responsible for
so much evil in this world.
But... belief in god is very relevant today and is directly responsible for
so much evil (e.g., islamic terrorism, gay bigotry, spanish inquisition and on and on).
Regarding the genocide, holocaust, murder, etc. you must be asking how could God be so loving yet allow
so much evil to take place in the world.
This is a question from Monika — «What would you say to someone who wants, really wants, to live following Jesus but has seen
so much evil and brokenness in Christianity that they don't see a way to make it work anymore?»
How do atheists account for
so much evil vs. so much good?
Many of the parishioners are not
so much evil as they are bored, and their entire Christian experience has never provided them a chair in order to sit for an hour in the heavenly places with Christ.
Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with
so much evil in it?
Also, if there is no wrong, why do Atheists say «There is
so much evil in the world»?
Besides, when you atheists say «There is
so much evil in the world», you are acknowledging there is right and wrong?
Instead of asking ourselves, «How can life be considered good when there is
so much evil in it?»
If God is all - goodness and also all - powerful, how is it that there is
so much evil and inequality in the world?
So much evil has taken place because of how he ordered people to kill each other in the Old Testement.
Whereas Pagels discusses second - century theologians who offer alternatives to Augustine's problematic freedom, she ignores the great «heretic» Marcion, who finally concluded that the creator of a world in which there is
so much evil is a deeply flawed deity, the very God from whom we must be redeemed.
One of the constant accusations brought against the Christian faith by atheists, is that the presence of
so much evil is allowed in the world by this «Almighty God» of the Christians.
Our best moral theories might seem to entail that nothing could justify God's having created a world with
so much evil in it.
For the victim of war struggling to connect with a God who allows
so much evil in the world, the bad news is that mankind's rebellion has turned the planet into battlefield; the good news is that God loves the world and has a plan to ultimately heal, restore, and redeem all of creation.
I have seen
so much evil done to people in the Name of Jesus from the institutions / parachurch orgs / evangelism that when someone tells me they are a pastor my first reaction is not what they might expect.
Eventually, the Satanic powers brought
so much evil into the world, that they were once again able to lead the world to the brink of complete destruction.
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.
Not exact matches
Let's spread it around as
much as possible
so we can take that
evil witch down!»
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.
Take away their ability to tax and inflate and
so much of their power to do
evil things to good people is gone.
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.
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.
let alone the god they present, one who could have created any kind of world he wanted, like an author who has complete control over what shows up in a fictional work; why would god then giddily create / allow
so much pain and
evil?
And I do think there is an element of hope in the crusade's demonstration that moral appeal and censure can affect a behavior
so widespread, although goodness knows there are
evils much more in need of our moral attention.
Because we have shared
so much... because I believe Him to be a big, teddy bear under the sometimes rough exterior... because He protects me and is there for me... because I have seen Him sacrifice for others... I can not even conceive of Him being
evil.
So my question to you even before it gets to that point is the same as I have given to others, first why do you hate God so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your evil and hateful way
So my question to you even before it gets to that point is the same as I have given to others, first why do you hate God
so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your evil and hateful way
so much and second what are you afraid of by switching your faith and it is by faith that you believe there is no God to a belief that God does exist he sent his Son Jesus to the world to redeem you from your
evil and hateful ways?
So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around no
So we're cleaner but we're also doing
so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around no
so much more
evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.
not
so much the job but the company which i think is
evil.
So much emphasis on getting the
evil / demons out.
The innocent little mouse was
so much like converted Christians: Satan wants to destroy them also as did the
evil guard who wanted to destroy the mouse.
A woman's life withers or expands in proportion to how
much she risks opening her heart And it takes courage to stand against
evil toward women, but even more
so to stand against the indifference toward the plight of women.
These «failed attempts to act on behalf of God» (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 232) were done with
evil in our hearts and the name of God on our lips, and thus reveal to us not
so much of what is in the heart of God, but what is in the heart of men.
so the Swiss Guard, protecting this
evil, are they as
much to blame, misled they must be, but of course the vatican says if you will protect us will put all our money into your banks, sounds fair doesn't it.
Because there is
so much in Western civilization that is good, 1 and that can be and ought to be made better, it would be fatal to withdraw in isolation from it or condemn it as wholly
evil.
Alter all, in our time
so much of our living is dedicated to the illusion that somehow our complete safety can be ensured and that we can be protected against all the ills and
evils common to human existence.
Her God is a fallible god, one who is, like us, wrestling with
evil: He «controls just
so much and is perhaps still struggling toward an ethical vision.»
The surprise of the book is just how the problem of
evil floors
so much of the naturalistic ethic.
But of course this in no way answers the questioner who asks, «Why doesn't God stop
evil and cruel men from causing
so much suffering?»
It gets
much worse when you consider the problem of
evil: If God really exists, and he is really all powerful, and really morally perfect, then why do
so many horrible, senseless things happen?
However, they may be driven sometimes to emphasize the lesser
evil so much that their decision may become remote from the Christian ethic, even though they don't intend that result.»