"Mother of Tears" is one of a small minority of his films in which the agencies of evil are supernatural, explicitly unreal.
'The rural and maritime populations are easily moved with notions of the active agency of the powers of evil,' he wrote in Toilers of the Sea (1866).
They may say this is because, in the Bible, God says he allows individual freedom of choice ("free moral agency") and allows the outcomes of evil choices until you die or he returns to judge all things and punish the wrong doers and reward believers in Heaven.[3].
Pitted against Ms. Fujiwara and the constructive forces of good, Finance Ministry officials intimate, are New York-based bond ratings agencies and the speculative forces of evil.
These markets and rating agencies are not widely seen anymore as an alien force of evil but as basically investors who don't want to lose their money".
None of the three agencies rate North Korea or Iraq, the other two nations said by President Bush to form an "axis of evil".
The Soviet Union was an evil empire; Osama is evil; the axis of evil is evil.
Take the "problem" of evil.
The Varieties of Evil: How to think about evil?
