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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Is there good and evil?

To me, good and evil aren't real. They exist because the concept of good and evil exist, therefore we attribute them to what we see fit. You say God is Good, and Satan is Evil, yet there are many things I've read in the Bible that God has done, and I would consider extremely evil.

You can't define a person as good or evil, because good and evil aren't tangible measurements of their actions, just our perspective and personal opinion on what they've done.

9/11 in America was "Evil", yet in many other countries they called it a miracle.

My Answer:
I'll start by asking a question. Can you show me a culture or society of people where rape, torture, stealing, or the murder is accepted by the general consensus of the people. Nowhere. Why? Because of a transcendent moral law. It's like saying there is no right or wrong. What you have is a postmodern view that is out of touch with reality. Those who rejoiced over 9/11 were those who are motivated by an hatred of the United States. What Hitler did is considered evil not by a biased group of people, but by an inward moral law that is found resident in humanity, but can be overridden by the dark descent into decadence. That's why words like madman, wicked, infidel, demon, tyrant, etc. exist because they are words that are in touch with a real world, just as words like truth, justice, mercy, heroism, integrity, righteous, etc. convey to us that which exist in a real world also. Let me add by saying that right and wrong exist; everyone cannot be right and that all philosophies and worldviews cannot be true, because truth by definition is exclusive.

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