Why people choose to do and say and think evil - Bible talk

[jennifer_bloom]

My experience with evil people who say or do or think or contemplate or plan or suggest evil is that in these cases, evil is almost always about power and control.

People want to feel powerful so they hurt others. People want to feel powerful so they try to control others. People don’t forgive because forgiveness makes them feel weak. People hold grudges because grudge holding gives them a feeling of control. People abuse each other because abuse gives them a sense of power.

People hog money and attention and time and praise and social attractiveness because they want to feel powerful. People mock and complain and bad mouth each other because they want to be powerful. People slander and destroy and rob each other because they want to feel powerful.

I find when I ask questions about creative expression and book writing online over 95% of those who respond will invent reasons to mock and criticize my ideas or to tell me I’m stupid or to criticize my character and today I asked a question about book writing and 7 people replied, 6 people pretended to misunderstand my question so that they would have an excuse to mock my question and the remaining 1 person replied in two sentences saying my idea was stupid and not worth answering.

Even in the religion and spirituality question - 98% of the religious people who use the site will mock and belittle and disrespect the question asker and say bad things or invent irrational reasons to judge people.

In almost every case of evil I’ve witnessed, the evil person was motivated by their desire for power.

[Jjpayne]

Power and control honestly makes a lot of sense 🤔

[Jjpayne]

Thank you for the mho 😊

[LEADFOOTboi]

seems legit, bloom

[LEADFOOTboi]

people that do and say and think these things are devoid of the Holy spirit... willfully ignorant of Jesus and his teachings

[dragoblack]

Well, to start off with, good & evil are mental constructs that differ in each culture, person and religion, and when it comes to "the bible" i have to ask, "which version are you going off of?" Because there are so many rewritings and variants when it comes to "the bible". most common bible that people tend to use, is the king James edition that was made to manipulate & rule over his kingdom through the church and ostracize anyone who didn't convert or opposed him and the English version most commonly printed is full of mistranslations from the Germanic version.

[Kas19]

Good and evil is subjective. I also never understood the idea of NEEDING to forgive someone. If someone I trusted deliberatley betrays me/hurts me, they don't deserve forgiveness. Not everything is black and white.

[Daniel_Dano]

Being envious and arrogant is the first gate of becoming evil , Satan being arrogant made him commit more and more sins which in turn got him kicked out of heaven.

People want power because they are envious, and once they get the power they use it very badly because they will become arrogant.

[GAGSucksBalls1]

I don't think religion plays a part in whether people are evil or not. I think a lot of religious people themselves, are evil though

[BlacklightShade]

The Bible holds no claim to morality.

[grega239]

Evil is in the eye of the beholder

[misanthropistkev]

Good and evil are man made concepts I do as I wish