Evil Definition Essay

Are you evil? Is anyone really evil? What even is evil? Evil is an adjective and noun. In the noun sense it means something that is bad, not good, foul. In the adjective form it means that a person, place, or thing is bad in elementary terms and demonic to the extreme. In a religious standpoint, it means to commit sin, or something similar to Satan. Religiously, evil means sin, and we all commit sin, but that does not really make us evil. The fact that we all have sin in our body the second we are born gives us the ability to act out a sin. Take two major events, 9/11 and the Holocaust, are the people who committed them evil? We refer to those both days as a day when evil happened, but are the people evil, or did they take advantage of the

I personally believe that evil is within all of us, but in American religious culture we call it sin, and in american culture we do not even have a name for the little evils, the little sins we do every day. Being disrespectful is something that is associated with rudeness, but it is also associated with teenagers. Lying is something that we try not to do, but it is associated with little children. Breaking the law is illegal, yet adults who drive get pulled over everyday. All these things, are sins that we do not name in American culture. In religious culture, we call it sinning. Within the Catholic Church, we are all human meaning we are all sinners. They are commutative. It is within us to be evil, to act evil, to be the adjective form of evil, but that does not mean that we are evil, the noun sense. We may act small evils, but that does not make us fully evil, that makes us human. Those documented in history as “pawns of Satan,” decided to act on that ability to do evil, and in World culture, we declared them the noun form of