Oh, hey, it's the dog toy under the couch that you won't find for another four months.

Alley Ward and it's evil.

Let's talk about it with a professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba,

who has written the book on it.

It's titled Evil, a Critical Primer, and teaches the course Evil in World world religions. They have a bachelor in religious

studies, a master's in critical theory and religion and feminist ethics, and a PhD in critical

theory ethics, hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis, and who will deal with my questions, such as

what is evil? Who is evil? What do we do about evil? Can we scream

over Turkey at Grandma's House? We're going to get into it. But first, thank you so much to patrons who support the show and have from the beginning, and y'all leave your questions. You too can join for a dollar a month at patreon.com slash ologies. Thanks to everyone wearing ologies merch from ologiesmerch.com. If you have kids or sensitive ears, we also have versions of Ologies that are classroom and kids safe, G-rated. Those are in their own feed. They're called Smologis, S-M-O-L-G-I-E-S, which is linked in the show notes. Thank you to anyone who leaves reviews for the show, which helped so much, and I read all of

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each week. Okay, critical ponorology. So, ponorology comes from the Greek word for evil,

and you will understand why the critical is in there in a minute. We fudged it a little bit. But ever

since I saw the word ponorology on this big ologies list as the study of evil, I have wanted to

explore the topic so much. So let's talk about the origins of evil,

different cultural approaches to the notion. Who uses the word evil to mean what if your toddler

is evil? Vampires, angry mobs seeking vigilante justice. News personalities saying unhinged

things. When you are a subject and when you are an object, why should you

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