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Cosmic Good and Evil: A Venn Diagram

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By Vexen Crabtree 2001 Sep 09

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This rant:
When God appears to act in an evil way then we have to conclude that God is evil. We cannot conclude that what is Evil for us might be Good for God


Cosmic Good and Evil: A Venn Diagram
If we, as fallible Human beings, are to attempt to be "good", and also what is good for God is not always what is good for us, then are we talking about a God-Demon combination? How can something be good for God that is Evil for us, when God is good? If God is good for us, it cannot be that what is good for God is evil for us. It would then make Evil good for us.

Isn't Satan the anti-humanitarian, the opposer of mankind? Who wrote this text, and others like it in the Old Testament - why is the God of the Old Testament quite so forcefully violent and bloodthirsty?

What is the point of us trying to judge evil from good, if the Glorification of God is good, and yet it is also, sometimes, anti-Human? Isn't this the reasoning of evil itself - turning something good into something evil? Isn't that ultimate Sin?

If, in the Satanic Bible, you discovered that a famous Satanist "had cursed the Columbine girl, and then she died at the hands of a mad kid", wouldn't that be outrageously immoral and inconsiderate? Isn't that what evil is? Even if it was for the ultimate good of God, it would be evil. Who worships Evil here? Anyone? Not even the self-professed Satanist worships evil!

Evil is what is not good for Humankind, I feel quite sure of this! If the Bible appears to condone evil, the Bible is wrong. Otherwise we are inspired to do evil ourselves like so many before us. If something is Evil for us, we have to oppose it.

If God is capable of creating a whole plethora of "other" beings and angels, corrupt hierarchies of powerful beings that all can choose evil, and places us at the bottom, suffering below all his mess, shouldn't we consider that God is perhaps just a Demon?

If God has created an area of cross over where evil for us is good for him why do we presume heaven will be any better? It could be far, far worse!

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By Vexen Crabtree 2001 Sep 09