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 Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:29 pm
....when you hear about "Divine retribution" there's always death? Sounds pretty evil to me. neutral
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:35 pm
You've got a point..... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:31 pm
There is no greater good than the removal of evil.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:40 am
Tammy-Seignfree There is no greater good than the removal of evil. If good and evil are relative terms, isn't that basically saying "There is no greater x than the removal of team y." ? Replace the terms a bit and you get an excuse for every war in history.
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:49 pm
But what is evil....?
The removal of evil or the retention of it...?
If you keep evil you make it so that those who are good have a purpose and are inclined to believe in themselves....
If you remove evil what will balance all the good? Surely mass love and kindness scares you?
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:50 pm
Well, I don't believe in evil or good people.
I believe in good and evil actions.
There's mostly grey area because what one person does that harms one can aid another.
As to your statement about devine retribution: isn't retribution itself a kind of revenge? So what the speaker is pretty much saying is "in the name of (something holy) this is my revenge" It's an excuse followed by the intentional suffering in some way of another.
It's only natural that it would sound evil.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:56 am
risen_from_the_ashes Tammy-Seignfree There is no greater good than the removal of evil. If good and evil are relative terms, isn't that basically saying "There is no greater x than the removal of team y." ? Replace the terms a bit and you get an excuse for every war in history. But if we're talking about it in terms of "divine retribution" then I would assume that something "divine" would be able to define good and evil accurately, not in terms of opinion like humans are limited to.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:50 pm
Divine retribution doesn't necessarily mean a conflict of good or bad. Basically it is angering God, the gods, a diety or some other such super human entity. And to take Christianity for instance: if God is unsatisfied with someone enough to rain 'divine retribution' on their heads it is beyond good and evil, because he would be considered the ultimate, the alpha and omega...THE creator. I mean, technically he 'allows' the devil to exist in a sense...
So if it transcends 'life' and goes to a spiritual level that diety/god/goddes/being is merely shifting someone to the next plain of existence so that they may be judged.
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