Theocidy

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Theocidy

• The Existence of Evil and the Goodness of God

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Nomos

• In the sociology of religion of Peter L. Berger,
  nomoi are meaningful orders or worldviews of
  individuals.
• We want, perhaps need, to believe that our world
  has meaning and purpose and that we an
  understand why things happen by uncovering the
  laws on which the world operates.

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Anomic

• Random, meaningless without explanation. Threaten
  the nomos.

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Varieties of Evil

• Moral Evil suffering and pain inflicted on
  others by human beingsmuch of it pointless.
• Natural Evil natural disasters, without direct
  human causefloods earthquakes, tornadoes.

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Katrina
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Johnstown Flood
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Tornado
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Dahmer
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weather
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Witch doctor
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Azande Granary
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Theocidy

• Any proposed solution to the problem of evil that
  reconciles the existence of an all-good and
  all-powerful God with the evil that exists in the
  world.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 to 1716
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Theocidies

• Dualism
• Karmic
• Theodicy of Participation
• Power is Morally Neutral

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Photos
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Chimney
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Buchenwald
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Eli Weisel
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Karma

• Non-theistic view operates like the natural law
  of gravity impersonally and automatically.
• Theistic divine being oversees the law of karma
  although the divine being may not be able to
  brake the law.

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Dharma

• The duty appropriate to ones caste. Progress to
  the next life depends upon fulfilling ones
  obligations.

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Sa?sara

• Wheel of Rebirth an ongoing cycle of birth,
  death, and rebirth is assumed as a fact of
  nature. Most of these traditions, in their
  evolved forms, regard Sa?sara negatively, as a
  fallen condition which is to be escaped.

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Samsara
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Samsara
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Theravada Buddhism

• Way of the elders
• Denies the existence of a Soul
• Retails a karmic understanding of the world.

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Buddha
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manicheanism
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Millenarianism

• having to do with the appearance of a messiah and
  a 1,000 year cycle.
• Millenarian groups typically claim that the
  current society and its rulers are corrupt,
  unjust, or otherwise wrong. They therefore
  believe they will be destroyed soon by a powerful
  force. The harmful nature of the status quo is
  always considered intractable without the
  anticipated dramatic change.
• In Medieval millenarianism the world was seen as
  controlled by demons and even up to the
  nineteenth century Chinese millenarianism used
  something like this motif, but with "demon"
  having a slightly different cultural connotation.
  
• In the modern world economic rules or vast
  conspiracies are seen as generating oppression.
  Only dramatic change will change the world and
  change will be brought about, or survived, by a
  group of the devout and dedicated. In most
  millenarian scenarios, the disaster or battle to
  come will be followed by a new, purified world in
  which the true believers will be rewarded.

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Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
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Sudan 1885
General Charles 'Chinese' Gordon (1833-1885)
The Madhi Muhammad Ahmad ibn Abd (1834-1885)
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Varities of Islam

• Sunni
• Most muslims belong to this branch
• Believe that any member of the tribe of Mohamed
  can rule as Caliphs.

• Shia
• Smaller group, mostly in Iran and Iraq
• Claim only members of the Prophets family can
  rule as Caliphs

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Shrine of Ali
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Revelations

• When the sixth seal is broken, there will be a
  violent earthquake and the sun will go as black
  as sackcloth the moon turn red as blood, and the
  stars of the sky will fall onto the earth like
  figs dropping from a tree in a high wind. The sky
  itself will disappear like a scroll being rolled
  up and all the mountains and islands will be
  shaken from their places.

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Eschatology

• From the Greek ?s?at?? meaning "last" -logy it
  is a part of theology and philosophy concerned
  with the final events in the history of the world
  or the ultimate destiny of human kind, commonly
  phrased as the end of the world. In many
  religions, the end of the world is a future event
  prophesied in sacred texts or folklore. More
  broadly, eschatology may encompass related
  concepts such as the Messiah or Messianic Age,
  the afterlife, and the soul.

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Duer Sixth Seal
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comet
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Increase Mather
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Chain of Being
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Second Coming
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September 11
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