The quantity of evil
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:07 pm
We always wonder, if there is a merciful God why does evil exist? Why do we suffer from diseases , wars and etc?..
But there's something very important we never consider in this equation , that evil has been always in a specific and limited quantity since the beginning of human existence.
A specific quantity that :
1-Never led to the vanishing of mankind .
2-Never obstructed the progress nor development of human civilization and knowledge .
3-Never been permanent nor unstoppable .
4-Always had a useful and a good side , for example after the world war II the United Nations was established and the world got together united under the values of peace and freedom .
If we consider the human history as a movie or a story , then we should be thankful one way or the other for the evil and the role it played in our story , because evil has led us to today and the civilization we have but it never destroyed us . Some old philosophers said "Evil always has a good side and there's nothing completely evil"
But there's something very important we never consider in this equation , that evil has been always in a specific and limited quantity since the beginning of human existence.
A specific quantity that :
1-Never led to the vanishing of mankind .
2-Never obstructed the progress nor development of human civilization and knowledge .
3-Never been permanent nor unstoppable .
4-Always had a useful and a good side , for example after the world war II the United Nations was established and the world got together united under the values of peace and freedom .
If we consider the human history as a movie or a story , then we should be thankful one way or the other for the evil and the role it played in our story , because evil has led us to today and the civilization we have but it never destroyed us . Some old philosophers said "Evil always has a good side and there's nothing completely evil"