Essays on Evil

David Hayden lived with his parents in Mercer County, Montana. A rather peaceful and quiet community, that has to deal with the harshness of the marginal land and frigid winter climate. To David, a social recluse, the rawness of the environs was a blessing as…

Within this essay, I’ll be exploring the problem of horrendous evil, which, as explained by H.J. McCloskey, ‘is a problem, for the theist, in that a contradiction is involved in the fact of evil on the one hand and belief in the omnipotence and perfection…

Introduction Saint Augustine’s belief that God is not the cause of evil is a claim that I am unable to completely agree with. This is simply because St. Augustine leaves the answer to what is the cause of evil, if not God, open-ended. Augustine strongly…

Introduction Atheism. A word that describes someone as not believing in a god or gods. The standard atheist is someone who uses logic and rational thinking to determine that god does not exist. They have many tools in their arsenal to prove this, but by…

After the conclusion of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, it is somewhat difficult to say which literary theory provides the most insight into the text. Initially, the novel was analyzed from potentially four different perspectives: reader response theory, archetypal theory, feminist theory, and post-colonial theory….

The struggle with evil lies within every person. We fight it, each in our own way, both internally, and externally, but those who have the endurance to battle and defeat it come out stronger, As such, the belief that only bad people struggle with evil…

Stealing. Rape. Murder. All of these are acts of evil that can be executed at any given point all over the world. However, none of these examples really help with understanding what evil actually is, which is why evil is perceived and defined differently by…

The teaching of the Catholic church says that all things were created by God. However, if God created everything and God is all good, then how did evil come to be? It would seem that God must have an aspect of evil to himself if…

The Evil Within Man Children, the most uncorrupt of human-kind, when children know right from wrong, yet they still choose to do wrong, what does that say about man’s morality? In the allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a “pack of…

Let’s play a simple game to begin this. Which of the following is considered more evil: Letting someone die or killing someone? It’s significantly difficult with just these two simple phrases but perhaps some context for these situations would help in that decision: Letting someone…