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Originally Posted by tecoyah
By invoking a "God", in an attempt to define Evil....you pretty much remove any clear personal opinion, and instead begin to state religious opinion.
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That's bollocks, and i think you know it.
Personal opinion=clarity? The moment someone capitolizes Evil, they recognize some moral authority that differentiates between good and evil, one that makes absolutes possible. So you personally don't beleive in absolute good and evil. But anyone in this thread that says that evil exists is talking about some knowledge of a framework by which human actions can be evaluated. and how exactly, would this be some how completely and categorically different than religious evaluations of human action?
What you state here isn't just an unjustified attack on religious thought, but also represents the obsfucation of the pitfalls of non-religious approaches to such questions as evil. You (or anyone's) personal opinion is not a guarantee of clarity, truth, or anything else.
An a priori dismissal of the religious is
nothing to be proud of.
/for the record, i don't think any one of those actions listed could permanently remove a person from the realm of grace. Those responsible for the death of Jesus, who commit nothing less that diecide, are forgiven.