No Unseen.

God is a construct?  Of course.  So is Superman,  unicorns and centaurs.  Gods , cartoon characters, mythological creatures are all  conjured from imagination.

Evil on other hand describes deliberate harm and intentional cruelty to a shocking degree.  Evil is a concept that describes actual behavior.  So the god construct/evil constr…[Read more]

Unseen – I totally agree.  I am just relaxing and having a very unevil day today.

I think it’s a healthy reality check for anybody.

My takeaway messages are: 1) make the most of life while we have it; 2) be grateful that we have it at all.

It depends how you define evil.

We could call it, causing harm for pleasure, or causing harm for some unworthy reason to do with self-preservation, such as might involve lies.

Baboons are a very spiteful species, and they also have a very strong dominance heirarchy.  Other species may well have been observed to be spiteful (causing harm for no…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Humans are primates. An animal. Religion pretends that we are a special animal, endowed by our creator as a soul and the gift or curse of knowing good and evil and having to male the right choices. However, animals don’t judge each other creatures as good or evil as species OR individuals. Are we somehow qualitatively different f…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

What would you call or label the absence of evil?

Heaven? Which further defines “evil” as a human invention and not a “thing.”

Strega wrote:

The proper antonym of ‘good’ is ‘bad’. The term ‘evil’ is a giving up of the possibility to make the ‘bad’ become less so, or even good. It’s populism can most probably be linked to religion or group thinking. There is no real antonym to ‘evil’ I don’t believe in ‘evil’, I think it’s a perjurative term.

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What I mean is, people from other groups are seen as weird, but if that group becomes a threat to “our” group, then those people are also seen as bad.

@Simon, it’s the people who are being manipulated for political purposes, not the terms.

I don’t know what your “but surely” clause means.