Comments on: Intrinsically evil http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/01/intrinsically-evil/ Exploring ways to grow in virtue and overcome vice Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Robert http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/01/intrinsically-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Robert Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:35:43 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=380#comment-99 Robert - I don't need a book to discover the potential for intrinsic evil; I just need to look into my own heart to see temptations large and small. As someone once said, Original Sin is the most obvious of all Christian doctrines. I suppose my question to you, then, is: do you hold that it is useless to resist evil, to attempt to overcome it - whether in oneself or in the world? If that's the case, do you think that <strong>any</strong> good is possible at all? Robert -

I don’t need a book to discover the potential for intrinsic evil; I just need to look into my own heart to see temptations large and small.

As someone once said, Original Sin is the most obvious of all Christian doctrines.

I suppose my question to you, then, is: do you hold that it is useless to resist evil, to attempt to overcome it – whether in oneself or in the world?

If that’s the case, do you think that any good is possible at all?

]]> By: Robert Landbeck http://www.virtue-quest.com/2010/01/intrinsically-evil/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Robert Landbeck Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:13:16 +0000 http://www.virtue-quest.com/?p=380#comment-98 That 'evil' has yet to be conquered, the very purpose of the incarnation, is why I left the Roman Catholic church and 'Christinaity'. That being said, one only has to read The Luciffer Effect by Philip Zimbardo of the land mark Standford prison experiment to know that the potential for 'intrinsic' evil is contained within the human condition and a part of 'natural' law itself. History is its own testimony to the limitations of the creative ethical potential to which humanity is capable and at the same time the destructive realities reason rationalizes for its own vanity. All virtue is chasing after wind. That ‘evil’ has yet to be conquered, the very purpose of the incarnation, is why I left the Roman Catholic church and ‘Christinaity’. That being said, one only has to read The Luciffer Effect by Philip Zimbardo of the land mark Standford prison experiment to know that the potential for ‘intrinsic’ evil is contained within the human condition and a part of ‘natural’ law itself. History is its own testimony to the limitations of the creative ethical potential to which humanity is capable and at the same time the destructive realities reason rationalizes for its own vanity. All virtue is chasing after wind.

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