Why is the left hand the one of darkness? The word sinister comes from the Latin meaning 'left' and history has dictated the left to be bad, mainly from religious texts and superstitious teachings. Many positive words derive from the Latin for 'right.'
In The Lord of the Rings, why was Sauron evil? Why do fables use animals? Why did Gandalf leave in The Two Towers? Why did Suzanne Collins write Catching Fire? Why is Madeleine L'Engle's book called A Wrinkle in Time? Why is Animal Farm called a fairy story?
Why are there no parables in the Gospel of John? Why did Jesus tell the Parable of the Prodigal Son? Why did God speak in parables? Why is the parable of The Sheep and the Goats important? Why are Jim and Della are called ''the magi'' at the end of the story "The Gift of the...
(2) The next step up comes with the realization that the entire living world is polarized upon the mere two poles of good and evil, and that all abstractions are either centered on the evil pole or on the good pole, and continue to battle each other for all cosmic eternity. Greek philo...
turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we areso cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than theGoats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others cameafter us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves."Old friends cannot with ...
60So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babel,evenall these things that are written against Babel. 61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest unto Babel, and shalt see and shalt read all these words, ...
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your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow. ...
but place a sense of moral responsibility over happiness. “In its calm and exact objectivity, this convincingly realistic narrative reflects experiences of life during the Resistance,” declared his 1957 Nobel Prize testimonial, “and Camus extols the revolt which the conquering evil arouse...
a church-trained, perhaps sentimental worldview that even the worst among us can be delivered from evil—if not by prayer alone then by the ministrations of a compassionate endocrinologist. my hormone-therapy prescription was designed both to recognize the suffering of the sinner—he’s “...