Evil is a good thing.
Why? How on Earth can evil ever be good?
An Evil Thought Experiment: A world exists called
Goodyworld, a place where evil does not
exist. Goodyworld is inhabited by the Goodians.
The Goodians, then, do not have free will.
For free will implies considering all possibilities,
even evil ones. And evil is not permitted on
Goodyworld.
Therefore, if one wishes to have free
will, one must accept evil as, literally,
a necessary evil. QED.
Implications for religion: a super-powerful,
freethinking god ( if one exists - a monumental
if!) cannot be all good. So any
super-powerful god has an evil side, just like
us. Then it would seem extremely hypocritical
of a god to be displeased by humans being evil.
In the same way that all matter and energy in
the universe ultimately originates from the
Big Bang, then, if you believe in a god, it
seems inescapable that all evil must, ultimately,
owe its origins in your god, freewill or no
freewill.
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