What is the cause of all Evil?

Numbing ourselves, to avoid/surpress pain in childhood creates an inability to feel a connection with each other in adulthood, that in turn allows for all forms of Evil to exist between us, To that degree we all contain evil "Which we personify as the devil, And we also contain the divine which we personify as god or good.

Posted July 26, 2011

karmicchristian says:

All humans live in shades of grey. No one or in fact nothing is absolutely evil or perfectly good. We have the choice to get tempted to do evil or eschew it and shun it. Karma does the balancing act of rendering justice during each lifetime.

Posted May 04, 2011

compugraphd says:

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Since I don't believe in "the Devil", and the angel (not fallen) called "Sahtan" in Hebrew (Satan in English) is G-d's prosecuting attorney, I believe evil is the outcome of G-d's need to give people free will. It is only through choosing good can we rise above.

Posted February 22, 2011

Jesusistheonlyway says:

We have a free will so evil arises cuz we choose to do it. Simple.

Posted December 29, 2010

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Hmm....for evil is just a word, evilness has no physicality, evil is the absence of good, like coldness is the absence of heat. Cold and heat has no physicality, but it takes one that has senses to perceive heat and coldness.

hmm...for it is the same as evil, Evilness is unique in the eyes of each observer, because not all who roam upon this world perceives evilness in the same way.
the perception of evil is separated by different sets of religions and groups of people.
hmm...evil does not exist,evil is not a force nor a thing that has selfawareness,you can choose to be,like you can choose to run,does running exist?no,its a action,same as evil.

Posted November 26, 2010

Vitrago says:

The cause of all evil is the mind of man

Posted November 07, 2010

Jaebaeli says:

the lower parts of our human nature.

Posted November 05, 2010

brad says:

evil is a human concept that is relative to humans alone... to illustrate this point, here is an example: imagine if i told you that you either had to kill a turkey or a human, which would you pick? of course, your inate sense of morality tells you that killing the turkey would be the morally better choice. but why??? this is because you are human... if you were a turkey, you would have saved the turkey, wouldnt you? i know its hard to imagine yourself as a turkey making these decisions, but i only chose a turkey to exaggerate the point. in other words, our morallity code is not based on a God, or our own opinions, but rather our inate sence of human preservation and happiness. every normal person, that means non-sociopathic, is born with this inate moral code, for without it, we would not have survived to evolve this far.

ps: just to highlight what i said was the moral code/where evil comes from:

evil is an action which is immoral, and an immoral action an action which is planned to hurt human life, happiness ect... where it could have been avoided.

Posted February 24, 2010

crosscreations says:

selfish greed

Posted November 28, 2009

Derrick says:

What is morally wrong

Posted November 09, 2009

Andras says:

I did not vote as the questions are not asked precisely. Satan exists, the devil does not. We all have a slice of god(the divine) and a slice of satan in us (as our lower-self. And if you question if god is an "actor" in mans' affairs than I am afraid you can consider me an "atheist" as he is not and actor and he is not a "he"

Posted September 20, 2009

newbornwiki says:

Evil is the product of human everyday choise.

Posted August 16, 2009

monarch13 says:

We as individuals choose Evil or Good everyday in every decision we make or don't make.

Posted June 26, 2009

spirituality says:

Evil is - I think - best defined as a moral problem. What's evil is bad because it's morally wrong. And only humans are capable of moral choices, so it's a human problem. The cause of evil is people mistreating each other out of greed, ignorance and selfishness.

Posted June 17, 2009

The Devil or some other divine cause

freda says:

The Bible says Satan was the original source of evil

Posted June 23, 2011

jd says:

the devil is the source of evil

Posted September 28, 2010

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The ultimate existential question: what is the cause of evil, hardship, sorrow?

How a question gets asks often determines how it gets answered. In the Abrahamic religions the existential question is usually asked just as I put it in my title: 'What is the cause of evil?'

Since God is thought to be a good being, he can't be the cause of evil - which is why people believe in The Devil.

Leaving aside a lot of theological debate for the moment, I'd like to introduce you to some other ways the existential question can be asked:

What is the cause of hardship and sorrow?

Why are good people often miserable?

Why am I so unlucky?

Why am I happy when others are not?

All religions attempt to answer these questions. But their answers depend on which question they put as the uppermost one. Christianity focuses on divine justice, because the basic question is one of 'good versus evil'. Buddhism focuses on learning to deal with stress and sorrow, because it focuses on 'the cause of hardship and sorrow'. Hinduism stresses that the good get rewarded in the end by blaming it all on karma.

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Where does injustice come from?

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Vallygems1 Dec 24, 2011 @ 5:11 am | delete

Greed, Materialism and plain stupidity. Most religious teachings show us this starting with Adam and Eve

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Vallygems1 Dec 24, 2011 @ 5:11 am | delete

Greed, Materialism and plain stupidity. Most religious teachings show us this starting with Adam and Eve

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spirituality Jun 17, 2009 @ 2:15 am | delete

Greed, ignorance and folly

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What is the place of sorrow, stress and unhappiness in life?

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compugraphd Feb 22, 2011 @ 2:08 am | delete

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It gives people a chance to rise up -- and, also, it's like making jewelry -- sometimes you have to hit or cut or heat up the metal for a beautiful piece to come out.

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spirituality Jun 17, 2009 @ 2:15 am | delete

Sorrow, stress and unhappiness are part of life. Learning to deal with them and prevent them from becoming stronger is part of the lessons humans need to learn.

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karmicchristian May 4, 2011 @ 1:37 am | delete

Can't agree more.

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