Why Is Evil So Attractive?

We want to believe we’re choosing what’s good even if we are actually taking the wrong path.

We tend to forget that little evil, thinking it would go away and that it wouldn’t cause us or others much harm. What we fail to consider is that evil grows. From that little seed of darkness, great evil grows and consumes everything along the way.

“Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.” — August Strindberg, The Dance of Death

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

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