Inherent Evil

[Durelin]

Tolkien, after all, was a Catholic and thus probably did not believe in the entire evil or goodness of a being or a race.

Uh...I'm pretty sure Catholics believe that a person can be entirely good. We are the ones with all the Saints, you know.

In other words, Eru is an evil dictator. Which is the way many see God, but I'm not one of them.

Phew, you had me going there for a moment, Nils... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Evil in the Creator himself? Now, if we are going on the fact that Tolkien was strongly Catholic and based much of this on his beliefs, then we shouldn't be asking this at all. But, since we do not know how much he based on his faith and how much he did not...

If there was evil in Eru, then there would be evil in all his creations, and none of them would be entirely good. What a clever thing! But...we come upon this: does what Eru create have a choice as to letting that evil or the good in them take control? Then you think, if Melkor created something out of evil, they wouldn't have a choice. But...Melkor did not create anything, he only adjusted and changed, and possibly bred together for a different combination. Therefore, they had the choice. So, the Orcs had a choice to be evil or not, and, driven by fear, they chose to.

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Come on! I'm waiting for that rebuddle! Now where is it? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]