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Evil in a World Created by God, Who is Good

for permitting evil; a reason of which we are not aware. And as long as this is logically possible, there is no contradiction betw...

Good and Evil in "The Grand Inquisitor"

the Church, without miracles, than from Jesus: "Receiving bread from us, they will see clearly that we take the bread made by thei...

The Amish Culture

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

Theological Issues

called the Son of God" (Aherne). In John 1:49, Nathaniel, at their first meeting, referred to Jesus as the Son of God (Aherne). Wh...

Scorsese's "Who's That Knocking At My Door" And "Mean Streets" - Brief Analysis

business transactions occur within the city limits, not to mention the fact that some of the wealthiest people choose to hang thei...

Profiting from the World Trade Center Attack

try and find out about people who are (or have) made money directly from the tragedy and see what we can find about them. Here, ...

Suffering and Evil

suffering: Why doesnt he participate, and why does he leave his faithful servants to suffer?5 These questions are fundamental to...

Billy and John Claggart in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

Evil and God

encompassed as well. This view of good and evil has a very Eastern flavor to it, as Eastern religions, such as Hinduism, stress th...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Evil and Death

It also seems likely that for someone or something to consider death an evil, that entity must self-aware. Its unlikely (though we...

Government by Homicide

at the beginning of the play that bears his name, grows increasingly evil throughout the drama. This paper argues that his crime i...

The Problem of Evil and Augustine’s Idea of Free Choice

thinkers in the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual plea...

Humanity Both Good and Evil on The Road

is a bleak and uncompromising look at what mankinds future might be after some unspecified disaster. The picture is ugly and unset...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

The Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

not aware of prior to the drug, and it could well be argued that it inspired him to write this story, a story that delves into the...

Comparative Analysis of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Theodicy in Christianity and Buddhism

tradition, also included transmigration: "Karma is ... the momentum of our actions that propels us through sa?sara, the continuous...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Criminal Justice Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

IS THAT WE ARE NOT INHERENTLY MORAL AND WE HAVE TO WORK TO ACHIEVE OUR MORALITY. PART OF THAT WORK HAS BEEN THE DEFINITION OF VAR...

Themes of Good Versus Evil And Grace In Flannery O'Connor's Work

the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...

IS MCDONALD'S CORP. ETHICAL?

to hiring diverse employees - but at the cost of satisfying the buying public. What is the truth here? Like all major corpo...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...