Good vs. Evil: How do various religions/philosophies deal with these questions?

Religion and philosophy plays and affects our lives greatly. For most of the part, religion and religious figure guide and set out our lives for us, such as what to do, and what not to do. Flaw for religion and religious figure telling us how to live and cooperate with our lives, can be seen as a wrong and unacceptable to other people in various society. Religion and philosophy are very influential and ideal to us humans, whether we are considered “good” or “evil”. However both religion and philosophy agree on as to what is considered “good” and “evil” throughout teachings, stories, morals, principles, ethic, lessons, and texts.

Although there are many different religions and philosophers with different style of thinking and literature, they all in the end conclude that acting good/positive is better yourself and others vs. acting all evil creating negative essences for yourself and society. This is not true if your masterminded by the illuminate or the freemasons as they have different philosophies and if you worship the devil, which both are the on the same boat.

In Muslim countries that are not democratized, they still follow the Code of Hammurabi, the oldest written code of law. This is considered a harsh set of laws, defining that the action you commit, such as cutting off someone’s arm, or steal, the same thing happens to you, so you would get the same arm cut off, and if you steal you would get your fingers chopped off. This is seen as a harsh and un-justice, but in fact countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran all have low crime rates, and theft rates. So, by having strict and harsh laws and religion supporting these laws, do these laws turn society into behaving good and positive?

As said in previous blogs, defining “good” and “evil” is vague, in which different religion, society, culture, philosophies have different meanings, view, which can differ vastly or be similar. Therefore, religion and philosophies both deal with the concept of “good” and “evil” in different ways, as there are many flaws and different types of thinkers and religions.