**RELIGION QOTD**

**Is it better to slay those corrupted by evil or to redeem them, if possible?**

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slay it

depends on the circustance
some evil can't be redeemed.

Redeem

''reedeming it'' is what got us where we are

Convert

convert to judaism

@OrthoGoat baseed and true

Evil is evil

If all the evil would be slayed, we would all be dead

Was Paul not redeemed?

We all are alive because God is too merciful to destroy all the evil at once

illogical

@OrthoGoat If we did that all the time, Saint Augustine and St Paul would have died evil

ok

@21ooAB Agree

Saint Augustine was not destructively evil but sexually immoral, with several mistresses but overcame it to become one of the most well known saints to ever live

Yes

we are now in a position where we can not only afford to destroy evil but must destroy it

since evil is at an advantage

Evil can't be redeemed, evil is the objective opposite of good. All creation is good but is corrupted by evil though, therefore redemption is the optimal answer if you rephrase your question so it makes sense

redeeming evil is a virtue for when we are in times of great prosperity and morality

@OrthoGoat Lets say civilization collapsed

and a nationalist of your persuasion was helping us but did terrible things to do it

in that case no

but is it really evil if it ultimately ends evil?

@OrthoGoat Like, I dunno, after decades of fighting, a broken nationalist decides that the only solution is war crimes to end it

Firebombing of the last enclaves of undesirables

is it better to kill him

or stop him?

war crimes

like jewish UN definition?

@OrthoGoat Perhaps

cringe

but I guess a better way to say it, is doing things you would believe are absolutely evil to achieve victory

@OrthoGoat

i think that in some cases, such as the situation we find ourselves in rn evil can be done to stop evil

Hitler wasent completely a christian