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Evil - What is it according to who?
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<blockquote data-quote="Grayson" data-source="post: 33560" data-attributes="member: 18"><p><strong>Re: Evil - What is it according to who?</strong></p><p></p><p>Evil is a strange beast and wears a cloak of many colours depending on your view point. The very act of cannibalism was seen by brave Christian adventurers travelling into Africa as an evil and obscene act against man and God, but to the cannibals it was an act of reverence, or of vengeance, but it was not an evil act. In fact, modern humans are believed to have cannibalised Neanderthal man in the evolutionary war of survival. So what is an evil act and how does that define evil? Hitler, the archetype of modern evil, the protean evil personified, didn't think he was committing evil acts when he sought to exterminate Jews and rid the world of International Jewery, yet we see him as evil incarnate. Those that worked with and for Hitler also didn't see the Holocaust as evil either and neither did the German people on the whole, so was the Holocaust evil?</p><p></p><p>Evil is a concept which is in counterpoint to good Christian ideology and thereby has no real definition within the human condition. Arguably, the acts of Japanese soldiers in WWII were evil, the current acts of horror in the Middle East are evil also, but neither the Japanese soldiers, nor the Islamic martyrs, or their peoples, would see what they do as evil. In fact, they view this from a diametrically opposed philosophy of what is right and what is wrong. Evil is not that which is unnatural, nor is it the opposite of good, which is subjective in itself, rather it is the South pole to our Christian moral North and our viewpoint is seen as an evil one in many parts of the world.</p><p></p><p>Evil is a construct by which religion and society can define what is acceptable and what is not within their spheres of influence and control. Good is acknowledged as an expectation of God and is rewarded by a place in heaven. Evil is bad and earns you a place in Hell. Do you really believe such concepts really exist?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grayson, post: 33560, member: 18"] [b]Re: Evil - What is it according to who?[/b] Evil is a strange beast and wears a cloak of many colours depending on your view point. The very act of cannibalism was seen by brave Christian adventurers travelling into Africa as an evil and obscene act against man and God, but to the cannibals it was an act of reverence, or of vengeance, but it was not an evil act. In fact, modern humans are believed to have cannibalised Neanderthal man in the evolutionary war of survival. So what is an evil act and how does that define evil? Hitler, the archetype of modern evil, the protean evil personified, didn't think he was committing evil acts when he sought to exterminate Jews and rid the world of International Jewery, yet we see him as evil incarnate. Those that worked with and for Hitler also didn't see the Holocaust as evil either and neither did the German people on the whole, so was the Holocaust evil? Evil is a concept which is in counterpoint to good Christian ideology and thereby has no real definition within the human condition. Arguably, the acts of Japanese soldiers in WWII were evil, the current acts of horror in the Middle East are evil also, but neither the Japanese soldiers, nor the Islamic martyrs, or their peoples, would see what they do as evil. In fact, they view this from a diametrically opposed philosophy of what is right and what is wrong. Evil is not that which is unnatural, nor is it the opposite of good, which is subjective in itself, rather it is the South pole to our Christian moral North and our viewpoint is seen as an evil one in many parts of the world. Evil is a construct by which religion and society can define what is acceptable and what is not within their spheres of influence and control. Good is acknowledged as an expectation of God and is rewarded by a place in heaven. Evil is bad and earns you a place in Hell. Do you really believe such concepts really exist? [/QUOTE]
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