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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
25 Examples of Everyday Evil
by John Hawkins
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13) Watching someone drop money on the ground and keeping it instead of giving it back to him.

14) A pastor who waters down his Christian beliefs because they conflict with political correctness.

15) Hacking into someone else's computer.

16) Choosing not to help pay for your own children's livelihood.

17) Spreading malicious rumors about friends and co-workers.

18) Aborting your child because it's inconvenient.

19) Deliberately undermining someone else's marriage.

20) Trying to rig an election, win a seat in the courts that you lost at the ballot box, or trying to insure phony votes are counted.

21) An atheist trying to ruin other people's faith in God to make himself feel better about his own unbelief.

22) Writing a virus that infects someone's computer.

23) Living off the charity of others or the government dole AND feeling no shame over it.

24) Mocking someone whose politics you disagree with right after he dies.

25) Knowingly accusing an innocent person of racism.

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(1) Sin is a word that means "evil act." A sin is an act that has the effect of turning the sinner away from God. Atheism is, in and of itself, an evil philosophy because of its intent to turn people away from God. Therefore, regardless of the fact that they think they are doing people a service by "freeing" them from religion, they are causing great spiritual harm, instead.

(2) I don't "THINK" I have a divine mandate to spread the Word of God. I copied the text of that mandate in an earlier post AND described where to find it. I do not recall who said this, but: "For the unbeliever, no proof is possible. For the believer, no proof is necessary." As such, I do not attempt to prove God's existence, but I know He exists.

(3) You say you aren't an atheist. Why, then, do you persist in equating atheist thought with religious belief? They aren't the same. Pope Benedict XVI is not the moral equivalent of Michael Newdow or Karl Marx (two noted atheists.)

(4) If Atheists are right, then I lose nothing by believing. I'm not missing anything, because the hedonistic lifestyle doesn't appeal to me, anyway, and I am not, as they dishonestly portray it, a slave to my religion. I am free to do as I please, with the understanding that I do it at my own peril. At the worst we all end up in the same place, 6 feet underground. If I am right, unrepentant Atheists lose everything, because while they may believe themselves more "free" than I am in this life, they have, in fact, become slaves to their own passions and will spend eternity in hell, primarily for denouncing God.

As I said, your argument hinges on the idea that atheism and religious belief are morally or functionally equal philosophies. They aren't.

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Are you familiar with the saying "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions?" There are plenty of evil things that people do thinking that they are doing a good. A priest I knew once made this comparison: Sure, it's easy to decide between an obvious good and an obvious evil. The hard part is deciding between an obvious good and an APPARENT good, that is something that appears to be good, but isn't.

As I said, abortion, regardless of intent, is an evil act. Period. The vast majority who have them either simply do not understand that fact or are faced with a decision where they are led to belive that abortion is a good act.

So, no, evil intent is not required for an act to be evil.
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