• Natural evil is evil for which "no non-divine agent can be held morally responsible for its occurrence" and is chiefly derived from the operation of the...
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    the form of personal moral evil commonly associated with the word, or impersonal natural evil (as in the case of natural disasters or illnesses), and...
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  • The problem of evil has been extended to non-human life forms, to include suffering of non-human animal species from natural evils and human cruelty...
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  • war or any other evil event for which someone can be held responsible or culpable. This concept can be contrasted with natural evil, in which a bad event...
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  • problem of evil. These theodicies assert that a universe which contains the beauty and complexity this one does could only come about by the natural processes...
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    Theodicy (redirect from God and evil)
    affairs... [and] has been divided into two categories: natural evil and moral evil. Natural evils are bad states of affairs which do not result from the...
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    religion, and psychology, "good and evil" is a common dichotomy. In religions with Manichaean and Abrahamic influence, evil is perceived as the dualistic antagonistic...
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    how evil can exist simultaneously with the existence of an all-powerful and all-good God, may utilize the concept of fallen angels to explain natural evil...
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  • theodicy is free will theodicy, which lays the blame for all moral evil and some natural evil on humanity's misuse of its free will. Barry Whitney gives the...
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  • evil are concerned with reconciling the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient God. The problem of evil is...
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  • Natural theology, once also termed physico-theology, is a type of theology that seeks to provide arguments for theological topics (such as the existence...
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    The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. The belief in the evil eye among humans...
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  • The website's consensus reads: "Evil Does Not Exist stands on the battle lines between modern civilization and the natural world, offering a perspective...
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    nature. He wrote that "evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name 'evil.'" Both moral and natural evil occurs, Augustine argued...
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  • "god") is the belief that a god is not wholly good and can even be considered evil, or one and the same with Satan. Definitions of the term somewhat vary, with...
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    gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human...
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    of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil. This is also part...
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  • called the natural history of religion". In The New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson wrote: After Dennett's harsh depiction of the moral evils associated...
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    his slaying of his brother, Abel Genesis 6–7 – The Great Flood; Rampant evil and Nephilim Genesis 11:1–9 – The confusion of languages at the Tower of...
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  • boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking...
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    of evil). It defends the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (all-powerful and perfectly loving) God in the face of evidence of evil in the...
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  • against the universal moral law. The outcome of one's natural tendency, or innate propensity, towards evil are actions or "deeds" that subordinate the moral...
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  • love and care. If such a God exists, why does he allow evil to happen? The existence of natural disasters, diseases, wars, crimes, and other forms of suffering...
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  • deities, and the nature of ultimate reality is unknowable by reason of our natural inability to verify any experience with anything but another subjective...
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    is natural to a thing – for instance, disease is the absence of health, blindness is the absence of sight, and vice is the absence of virtue. Evil may...
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    requires free moral creatures." However, the argument's handling of natural evil has been disputed. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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    Doctrine". Mackie, J. L., "Evil and Omnipotence." Mind LXIV, No, 254 (April 1955). The Power of God: Readings on Omnipotence and Evil. Linwood Urban and Douglass...
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    the world (Freedom Evolves).[citation needed] Dennett saw evolution by natural selection as an algorithmic process (though he spelt out that algorithms...
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  • Hence, Ekwensu is an entity that is usually associated with natural evil but not moral evil such as Satan. They only believe in spirits whose nature is...
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  • and his creation's person's free will, in traditional terms of good and evil actions, as follows: … "Does God know or does He not know that a certain...
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