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Secularists have no basis to make moral judgments.(Letter to the Editor)
While reflecting on Dennis Behreandt's article "Why Does God Allow Calamities," I thought it important to remind fellow readers that Christians aren't alone in facing "the problem of evil."
Many Christian apologists have pointed out that the secularist doesn't even have a basis to object to what he thinks is evil. After all, if the universe and physical world are all there is and they persist today as a product of blind random chance, who's to say that a natural disaster is "bad"? It just is.
Worse yet, in a godless universe of blind chance, the secularist's very thoughts merely reflect a deterministic phenomenon of the brain. In other words, his "judgment" of good or evil is ...
- Evil and human nature.
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...theological problem of evil, though it is customary...distinguish between moral evils and natural evils...Since the existence of evils of both sorts is usually...indubitable, the problem of evil is then construed...reserve the term `evil' for what is morally...that there are moral ...
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Manning, Joanna November 1, 2002 700+ words
...The Evil Women Do." Such evil is most often confined to the...For poor women, good and evil, sin and salvation are all...naked. By publicly naming the "evil embedded in families, homes...and theologies ... as the evils women endure," Gebara sets...
- HORRENDOUS EVILS AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies MCNULTY, T. MICHAEL December 1, 2000 700+ words
...suffering to defeat the evil they experience. A...horrendousness of the evil human beings are sometimes...She defines horrendous evils as "evils the participation...compossibility of God and evil (even the evils of entrenched horrors...
- Evil and evildoers. (Faith matters).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Volf, Miroslav November 14, 2001 700+ words
...is lost if we describe he terrorists as evil," a friend of mine argued recently...he says, when we name our enemies as evil. Instead, we should state what we feel...properties such as moral goodness or moral evil. If we drop words like "good" and...
- Proclus. On the Existence of Evils.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Vorwerk, Matthias March 1, 2007 700+ words
...importance whether one speaks of evil or of evils, but for the Neoplatonic...prime matter is absolute evil and the cause of all evils in the physical, as well...there existed no absolute evil at all, but only individual evils. With Plotinus and against...
- Does evil have a cause? Augustine's perplexity and Thomas's answer.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Steel, Carlos December 1, 1994 700+ words
...have a far smaller share of good than of evil, and while God must be held to be the...other factors than God as cause of the evil."(1) Rightly celebrated, this passage...reflection in Western thought on the cause of evil. In contrast to traditional mythology...
- Evil
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Larrimore, Mark January 1, 2005 700+ words
...to a universal "problem of evil." But dukkha, "suffering, unsatisfactoriness" is not evil. Different traditions define different things as evils (as they do goods), and...responses. Thinking about evil is usually accompanied by...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire December 17, 1997 700+ words
...Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Resident Evil and its licensed properties have generated revenue...date, more than 4 million units of Resident Evil (known as Biohazard in Japan) and Resident Evil: Director's Cut have been sold worldwide...
