Atheism 16 - Good v. Evil
This is another of those questions that hasn't actually been asked, but it's a big part of any religious belief, so it bears addressing. It is, in fact, the very core of any religious belief, or any social belief for that matter, as we will see. It is also another question for which I am personally ill-equipped to answer, so what follows cannot be seen as any definitive response, merely the musings of a fellow space traveler who has occasionally pondered the topic. When it comes to defining the terms "good" and "evil," it seems to me that every society has developed the concepts independently. Even when looking at a simple subsection of the idea, such as prudence, one finds a plethora of different ideas. While a young woman in Victorian England would be thought of as imprudent if she were to appear in public with an exposed calf muscle, a young woman in ancient Polynesia would be perfectly acceptable were she to appear bare-...