The defenders barricaded within were to be pardoned but the temple, itself, destroyed, so that, says Rufinus, "the cause of the evils and the roots of the discord which had taken up the defense of the idols should be eliminated, so that once these were done away with the reason for the conflict might disappear" (II.22).
But I will not be silent in my support of the tireless work and dedication of the wonderful nuns who serve the poor and the helpless, the sick and infirm, the children and elderly, who even go to jail for the cause of protesting the evil of war and nuclear threats to humanity and the world.
This means that God (who is good) is not cast as the cause of evil, because evil arises out of a defect in an agent, and God is seen to be without defect.
Here, for example, are comments from one supporter's Facebook page, adorned with pictures of the Mayor: "Zionists are the root cause of all the evil on this planet right now Zionists are filthy animals with total depravity of any form of decent humanity.
Scully calls the contemporary factory farm "our own worst nightmare" and, to his credit, doesn't shrink from naming the root cause of this evil: unfettered capitalism.
The freedom of each event, the absence of divine determination, provides a way for process thought to avoid God being the cause of evil or containing evil as evil.
How could this happen if, as we believe, elevated blood sugar is the cause of all the evils of diabetes?
The possible cause of the large evil-smelling, mucilaginous mats that had formed in the Adriatic Sea every summer since 1989 was revealed in April.
"Anyone who loves liberty is bound to ponder deeply over the origin and causes of this evil and the possibilities of preventing and curing it," he wrote.
