Posts Tagged ‘Evil’
God permits evil
To understand the nature of evil, let’s turn to another church doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher ever (and my patron saint). He suggests that we need to distinguish between evils of fault and evils of penalty:
Read MoreThe moral peril of a classical education
Another way of putting it is this: I read and understood Aristotle, but read and did not understand Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Baudelaire, Dickens, Hawthorne, Poe, and Flannery O’Connor. These authors combined contain, in their writings, all the warnings against human weakness, human cupidity, and human deceit that any person needs to know to live wisely in this world.
Read MoreA unique source of evil according to Blaise Pascal
BLAISE PASCAL: “I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.” [Blaise Pascal, was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.]
Read MoreWhy God permits evil
Did God create evil? To get the answer, let’s turn to another church doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher ever (and my patron saint). He suggests that we need to distinguish between evils of fault and evils of penalty …
Read MoreA feeble attempt to understand evil
By Tom Quiner God teased us. When Moses asked who are You, He responded: “I am what I am.” (Exodus 3:14) That tells us a lot, doesn’t it? Fourteen centuries later, Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do they say I am?” And they replied in Matthew 16:14 – 20: 14 “Some say John the Baptist; others…
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