On Spiritual Entropy, or Evil as Destruction or Corruption

I really like the term “spiritual entropy”, I’m totally stealing it. ;) I think I should make it clear that by discussing comparative religion philosophically, I’m not really stating what I personally choose to believe most of time. I’m certainly not trying to convert anyone. If there is something that is a logical possibility, it has to be mentioned and addressed, that’s how philosophy works. The reason why I’m saying this is that personally, I actually do like this interpretation of evil the most — the evil that cannot create, only ruin.

In terms of the computer game analogy, the diferrence between evil being equal in the creation process and the evil being inferior to the creator would be a very substantial one. It would be a difference between evil being a co-creator or evil being just a created construct, like a difference between a person (programmer or player, a user) and a piece of software. If evil is just “software” created by god, like we are, it would make sense it cannot create.

This does get into a lot of difficult debates, though. If evil is created by God, isn’t it then by default a good thing? In a sense that Devil is not really a true antagonist to God, but in fact his number one agent, a route that the new Lucifer show has taken. It is a concept rather foreign to the English speaking world (maybe apart from the romantic movement, but there Lucifer was still a rebel against God). In Czech folklore, however, a very Christian one since the middle ages, Lucifer is indeed not seen as a source of evil, but a punisher of it.

In that interpretation, humans are the source of evil. Which then begs the questions like why does God allow humans to do evil, if He is omni-benevolent? And why would that be if they were created in His image no less? Does it mean that He is also capable of evil? He should be, if he is omni-potent, but then it kinda conflicts with the omni-benevolence. The funny thing is that all this talk of perfection, the omni-god interpretation, isn’t in the Bible at all, this is actually all assumed and added by Christian philosophers.

It’s all summed up nicely in this video:

PS: I have nothing against your interpretations in general, they are logically coherent, but there is a broader context and not all questions have answers.