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Do you believe in good? Do you believe in evil?
Honestly, have you experienced either. And do you believe they are opposites.
Have you experienced God or the devil?
14 Answers
- Z-WarriorLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
God is the Devil,
two sides of the same coin,
if he doesn't get the attention he wants,
he casts you into hell.
America was not founded on God, Christians tried to push their BS views on people, killed a lot just so that they could have their crap known, the KKK was real big into that, about as bad as Nazis with the whole USA being segregated for over 100 years up until the 1970s, it was bad the Christians were doing this, then got the Blacks to adopt the religion as well. Now they are all Gansta'Christians. The Pledge of Allegiance was modified by Christians to include god in it in 1954.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pledge_of_Allegia...
The Dark Side of Christian History
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Christian-History/...
John 3:16 says,
Cause Jesus forgives.
There's no reason to practice Morality.
So being an evil little heathen and believing in Jesus will get ya to heaven. However if you are a good person and don't believe in Jesus you go to Hell.
Only a demon would suggest that,
only an ignorant would believe it.
- JLv 71 decade ago
I believe in Good, I believe in evil.
I have experienced Good.
I have experienced evil, though not to the extent that many others have.
I have experienced God.
I am still a bit on the fence about what exactly is meant by "the devil".
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
Good and evil are both relative terms. Something considered evil to someone may be good to someone else. No, I have not "experienced God or the devil".
- 1 decade ago
'Good' and 'evil' are completely subjective things. I'm completely moralistically nihilistic. What is evil to one person may be good to another. There is no black or white in this debate. Many people will say "that feels right/wrong". That isn't proof of somethings correctness.
No god, no devil have I ever experienced.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Good and evil are man-made and man-defined terms representing the current brand of morality.
I have experienced both, as when my GF loves me, I think that's good.
When theists hate me, without knowing me, and think I should burn in their vision of hell for being born the way I am, I think that's evil.
There is no evidence for either A God Or a Devil, so I have experienced neither.
- suhwahaksaengLv 71 decade ago
Evil can be explained without inventing a red man with horns.
Here are some sources of evil which have nothing to do with the supernatural:
■ A violation of instincts could be considered evil.
Animals of other species have managed to keep an orderly society for millions of years. That is because it is in the evolutionary interests to keep an orderly society. As a result, the Animal Kingdom was endowed with an instinct to keep an orderly society long before religion appeared on the scene.
■ An evolutionary atavism could be considered evil.
In the first section, I started to write that "we can refrain from lying, cheating, stealing, and killing without pretending that there is a Big Daddy watching over us." But now that I think about it, I'm not quite sure.
In prehistoric times, it was in the evolutionary interests for a man to lust after every woman he sees. That way, he can leave more offspring. However, it was in the evolutionary interests for a woman to seek a relationship with one mate. That way, she is assured against a cave full of children that she couldn't handle by herself. Today, we live in tighter communities, where the woman's instinct is preferable.
Furthermore, it was in the evolutionary interests for people, especially men, to show hostile behavior. That way, the settlement is protected from enemy tribesmen and wild animals.
Today, we have less to fear from enemy tribesmen and wild animals. Most of our confrontations are with people who disagree with us. (Like in this forum, for example!) However, our inner brains don't know about Republicans and Democrats, Whigs and Tories, Protestants and Catholics, or theists and skeptics. We think that anyone confronting us is threatening our lives. That's why you see so much hatred being vented in situations such as this one.
■ A show of non-conformity could be considered evil.
Have any theists reading this response have been scorned by their peers for being too pious? That works both ways. I used to attend church in order to learn more about religion, but the parishioners put so much pressure on me that I had to stop.
Like most other instincts, hostility toward non-conformists is as old as the hills. Every ornithologist knows this. They sometimes put a band on a bird's leg to study the immigration patterns of that bird's species. But the study could get aborted when the other members of the flock peck that bird to death.
Most people aren't homosexuals. That's why the authors of the Bible pretended that it was an abomination "to lie with a man as one lies with a woman."
- TruthLv 41 decade ago
I don't know if I believe in "good and evil" anymore because people have various sides to their personality. Sometimes we're nice and upright and at other times we're not the best people. People aren't perfect. At times we make bad decisions but I think it would be kind of harsh to label people as "evil".
- Lost ProphecyLv 71 decade ago
If you don't believe in God than you don't believe in the Devil. If you don't believe in the Devil than you don't believe in God.
There is both good and evil int this world that is my proof that God and the Devil exists.
- ?Lv 41 decade ago
No, but I believe in good and bad, people who make good decisions and people who make bad decisions. And no, I do not entirely think they are opposites, although the words would be considered antonyms. Everyone has good inside of them and everyone has bad, it's the choices you make that determine which you are.
- 1 decade ago
there are good and evil in all humans.. but i don't believe in the devil or god.. i believe in the goddess
when you die i believe you are judged by hecate a crone goddess and if your good she brings you to heaven and if your bad she brings you to the underworld