Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.
I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark. . . In the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people. ' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!
Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.
Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.
Satan can never be as evil as our God is good. His mercy is limitless. His love is limitless!
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time. Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind.
Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people who take an essentially theological approach, and the two really meet. The psychologists try to "understand" the Soviet Union. And try to ease its alleged fears. The theologians say the Soviets are evil.