Calum Avery
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A Brief Take on Good and Evil
Throughout the course of human history, the word "evil" has been a constant. Men and women wielding pitchforks chased down witches in the late 1600s out of fear, for a witch was an evil being who used black magic for evil purposes. Pagans and their gods were written off as evil and slaughtered under the Church for centuries, some of their most important symbols being changed into symbols of the Devil, the ultimate culmination of evil itself. For example, Poseidon's trident was revised a pitchfork, Saytyrs and the nature god Pan's hooves and horns as the Devil's goat-like characteristics, and the Pentagram as the Devil's complete symbol); in George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV, the second sentence written in the opening crawl states that "Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire." The word "evil" has been thrown unto countless people, organizations and actions since as long as anyone can remember. Before we start on why this is so wrong, it must first be defined as to what evil actually is.
By Calum Avery5 years ago in Humans