Tag: evil

Sin’s necessity

November 19, 2012 | 8 comments

Here’s a view of sin I’d never considered in depth before: “This is sin’s necessity,– to destroy itself.”  Mary Baker Eddy (S&H 405:19) Sin is often viewed in terms of the harm it brings the sinner. A caught thief is sent

Don’t smoke the cigarette

September 12, 2012 | 11 comments

This post will make sense to anyone repulsed by the idea of smoking of cigarettes. If you like to smoke, you’re welcome to read it too! But it might not resonate with you the same. If a stranger walked up

Hate is a crime

August 13, 2012 | 4 comments

  The recent shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin is another reminder that something needs to change in the fundamental thinking of our society to prevent atrocities, such as this, from happening over and over again. With the Colorado

The right kind of fight

June 11, 2012 | 2 comments

Do you ever get into over-heated arguments with other people, verbal brawls, out-and-out fighting matches of words and emotions with escalating tension, louder and louder shouting, and crueler things to say? If so why? Do you end up happier? Do

Where does your thought take up residence?

March 28, 2012 | 7 comments

I was listening to a stranger articulate all the ugly outcomes he saw happening in the world today. The economy was horrible, there were no jobs to be had, politicians were unresponsive, ignorant and self-serving, foreign countries were on the