Why is the most traveled road evil? People are constantly led into evil temptation every day of their lives and have the opportunity to give in. Although, people possess the power of free will by making the choice to give into evil temptations or to do good. A common factor in giving into evil ways comes from peer pressure. In Genesis, Satan pressures and persuades Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (King James Version, Genesis, 3:5). Eve knew that this was against God’s wishes and that she would be punished for her actions, but she gave into the sin out of her own free will. She was tempted
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In Sharon Begley’s “The Roots of Evil”, she quotes Heraclitus on what he believes influences how people will live their lives. “A man’s character is his fate” (Begley 6). Of course, what people decide to do in life is a reflection of their character. It defines a person’s future mistakes or future success. So, just as man has the ability to pick evil can also choose to do good with his character. For example, in Roger Rosenblatt’s “The Man in the Water”, he shares the story of a real life hero who with a strong sense of character and courage saved others lives. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and floatation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers” (Rosenblatt, 20). The man in the water exerted a great amount of character to risk his own life to help others in his own time of need. Furthermore, character is what guides people to make decisions, their own decisions on what they choose to participate in. Therefore, people are not only molded by their character, but by their …show more content…
In Begley’s “The Roots of Evil”, she explains how evil concepts can deeply affect feeble minds. “Hatred, violence, and ideology exert powerful effects on weak minds” (Begley 14). Thus, such evil actions of violence that stem from hatred are glorified to get people to commit sins. In addition, another example comes from the hate literature of one of the most evil figures of the world and possibly his inspiration for it all. Again, Begley, author of “The Roots of Evil” offers a great example of what ideology can do to a weak mind through Henry Ford’s and Adolf Hitler’s writings. “The catalyst for Nazi evil may have been the virulently anti-Semitic pamphlets written by auto-chief Henry Ford, circulated in Germany in the 1920s. Hitler cribbed much of “Mein Kampf” from Ford’s “The International Jew””. (Begley 14). To summarize, this kind of ideology allows evil to be welcomed in if people do not continue their knowledge of what is right from
In Sharon Begley’s “The Roots of Evil”, she quotes Heraclitus on what he believes influences how people will live their lives. “A man’s character is his fate” (Begley 6). Of course, what people decide to do in life is a reflection of their character. It defines a person’s future mistakes or future success. So, just as man has the ability to pick evil can also choose to do good with his character. For example, in Roger Rosenblatt’s “The Man in the Water”, he shares the story of a real life hero who with a strong sense of character and courage saved others lives. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and floatation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers” (Rosenblatt, 20). The man in the water exerted a great amount of character to risk his own life to help others in his own time of need. Furthermore, character is what guides people to make decisions, their own decisions on what they choose to participate in. Therefore, people are not only molded by their character, but by their …show more content…
In Begley’s “The Roots of Evil”, she explains how evil concepts can deeply affect feeble minds. “Hatred, violence, and ideology exert powerful effects on weak minds” (Begley 14). Thus, such evil actions of violence that stem from hatred are glorified to get people to commit sins. In addition, another example comes from the hate literature of one of the most evil figures of the world and possibly his inspiration for it all. Again, Begley, author of “The Roots of Evil” offers a great example of what ideology can do to a weak mind through Henry Ford’s and Adolf Hitler’s writings. “The catalyst for Nazi evil may have been the virulently anti-Semitic pamphlets written by auto-chief Henry Ford, circulated in Germany in the 1920s. Hitler cribbed much of “Mein Kampf” from Ford’s “The International Jew””. (Begley 14). To summarize, this kind of ideology allows evil to be welcomed in if people do not continue their knowledge of what is right from