Sentence examples for evil whether from inspiring English sources
Erdrich juxtaposes a tradition like this against the Roman Catholic conviction that every evil, "whether moral or material," ultimately "results in good".
An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.
What resulted were highly cliched dramas devoid of human emotion, in which white knights of the Communist Party battle and ultimately defeat evil, whether oppressive landlords, Japanese soldiers, Kuomintang bandits or petty-bourgeois capitalists.
"So far as this movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce discontent with evil, of a determination to punish the authors of evil, whether in industry or politics, the feeling is to be heartily welcomed as a sign of healthy life.
Pratchett has always sent up Tiffany's copy of The Goode Childe's Booke of Faerie Tales and its conventional views on witches and fairies, but his stories also invite us to think about what constitutes good and evil, whether a character is inventing the postal service or serving in a battalion with a vampire.
The reality of the distinction between good and evil — whether physical or moral — depends on "the natural sentiments of the human mind".
The answer is that, if either a deontological approach to ethics is correct, or a form of consequentialism that takes the distribution of goods and evils into account, rather than, say, simply the total amount of goods and evils, whether this fact is an impressive reason for questioning the existence of God surely depends on further details about the world.
One is whether humans are free to make choices between good and evil and whether we're responsible for those choices.
Actual sin is sin in the ordinary sense of the word and consists of evil acts, whether of thought, word, or deed.
Then there are difficult moral questions about the nature of evil, and whether a person who commits evil while thinking he is doing good (and Hitler was probably in that category) is himself evil or just tragically mistaken?
