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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
Evil, then, is the outside force manifesting itself in people's desire to do what is wrong in God's eyes. What people DO with evil impulses can range from murder to "taking 5 extra minutes at lunch at the company's expense". Our sense of outrage at a particular misdeed reflects the whims of whatever society/time we are living in, but don't really measure the force called "evil".
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Your definition of God is something akin to a superior being or creature. Man is made in the image of god, as my so many years of religious training ordered us to believe. IOW that God is really a pagan god little different from those that were worshipped on Mt Olympus.
A real god is best found in the studies of god's laws - mathematics, physics, psychology, chemistry, etc. So where are these eyes in that god? No 'eyes' means god is blind? Exactly. God does not see nor does he care what we do. Therefore there is no evil as you have defined. A real god is a ‘force’ so much larger and grandeur that, as even George Burns said in Oh God, he gave us all to do as we choose. He provided the rules that we - both your good and evil - use as we please. The real god does not make a distinction between good and evil. If he did, then he would distort the laws of physics at the expense of evil. A real god does not care as demonstrated by the lessons of history.
Just down at the slaughter house where I saw the "atrocity" everywhere. Cattle being slaughtered without even any consideration for that God and his rules. You tell me. Clearly this is evil - death without even remorse - from the perspective of cattle. And yet man called the same act not evil? How can this be? There is perspective to what is and is not evil? How can there be perspective if only God can define evil? Is God so biased as to give one biological creature righteousness and blessings at the expense of all others? Or instead, the pagan God does not really exist. If the pagan God does not exist, then either does that definition of evil.