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C.S. Lewis on evil
According to the book of [[Genesis]] in the [[Bible]], evil entered the world when the serpent tricked [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] into eating the fruit from the forbidden [[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]].<ref>Genesis 3:6-7</ref> This event is known as [[the Fall]], and is responsible for the suffering and imperfect nature of the world. (Some people do not take the story literally, and some see the Genesis story as an allegory or metaphor, possibly for a fall taking place at a spiritual level.)
According to the book of [[Genesis]] in the [[Bible]], evil entered the world when the serpent tricked [[Adam]] and [[Eve]] into eating the fruit from the forbidden [[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]].<ref>Genesis 3:6-7</ref> This event is known as [[the Fall]], and is responsible for the suffering and imperfect nature of the world. (Some people do not take the story literally, and some see the Genesis story as an allegory or metaphor, possibly for a fall taking place at a spiritual level.)
==Mixing Good and Evil==
According to C.S. Lewis, evil is often a perversion of something good that [[God]] has created. In the instance of [[Genesis]] 3 (Satan's temeptation of Eve), Satan added potency to his temptation by mixing good with evil: Eve saw that the tree was good for food.<ref name="Virkler">{{cite book |last1= Virkler|first1= Henry A.|title= A Christian's Guide to Critical Thinking |url=http://books.google.no/books?id=rUgqAAAACAAJ |accessdate=16 February 2012 |origyear=1993 |publisher= Wipf and Stock Publishers|location= Eugene, OR|isbn= 1-59752-661-4 |pages=73 }}</ref>
==Denial of evil: relativism==
==Denial of evil: relativism==
Among the [[atheist]] community, there is [[liberal denial]] that evil exists. Many atheists have no universal [[morality|moral law]], and some insist that good and evil are seen as just personal opinions, varying from day to day (see [[moral relativism]]). A popular unattributed slogan from the 60's ([[hippie]]) [[counterculture]] asserted:<blockquote>"''There's nothing really good or bad, but thinking makes it so''" (sometimes adding, "''Don't think! Don't think!''").</blockquote>
Among the [[atheist]] community, there is [[liberal denial]] that evil exists. Many atheists have no universal [[morality|moral law]], and some insist that good and evil are seen as just personal opinions, varying from day to day (see [[moral relativism]]). A popular unattributed slogan from the 60's ([[hippie]]) [[counterculture]] asserted:<blockquote>"''There's nothing really good or bad, but thinking makes it so''" (sometimes adding, "''Don't think! Don't think!''").</blockquote>