Religion and Philosophy

Depending on peoples different religions and beliefs everyone has very different thoughts on the concept of good and evil. Christians believe that good is what people want to be and how they live up to there morals, They don't have specific rules to live by, but overall they all should care for each other and have a kind heart. Christians believe that god is the power of good, and that he created us to have free will and choose for ourselves either good or evil, and that everything god created has good in it. Christians believe that evil entered the earth as a result of Adam and Eve giving in to temptation and eating the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, although it also teaches that good is stronger than evil as God over powers the devil. God allows evil to exist so that humans can have a choice between good and evil and deal with the consequences, it helps gods relationship with humans for him to see who those who seek the good and not the evil. Evil people always seem strong but somehow lose in the end, like the movie Alex Cross.

Plato is known as one of the greatest philosophers and believed totally different thoughts to the christian's as he was not christian. Plato believed that humans were made up of only two substances ; a body and a soul, he believed that the body was evil and the soul was good as it is always with you. His beliefs were that everyone has good AND evil in them and they can't do anything about it, good and evil are with you all the time just like you body and soul. Plato thinks that we all think we understand and know the real world well but really we don't, and he wanted us to understand the real world better, he thinks we are seeing illusions not reality. Plato thought that most people were pretty stupid, and decided to write down ideas of his own, he believed in a form of philosophy called property dualism that means there are two completely separate processes that are co-located in our body. This you tube clip explains how Plato's theory workshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TYKNAdbhQ-w


Both of these ideas and beliefs seem pretty reasonable and have made me think a lot about what they really mean. Plato's theory makes most sense to me as i believe that evil can definitely over power good,  which Christians think that good is stronger than evil. In my opinion i think that we all have good and evil in us, but when good over powers the evil in you, you can easily turn evil, but once the evil takes over, you can never go back to the good again because once  evil takes over it will control your body and soul and will not be able to be reversed.