You don't look at rocks and say that's a moral rock, and that's an immoral rock, that's a wicked rock, and that's a good rock.

Huck and that which has no personality, no consciousness, no will, be called evil.

I'm very much aware of the fact that in the 19th century, in the beginning of the 20th century,

with the advent of liberal Christianity which denied everything supernatural,

even the supernatural character of Christ, that everything that the Bible said about Satan as a supernatural individual being

was rejected as pure mythology, and the best thing you can get was that Satan is a symbol for an evil force.

How many of you heard that? There's a force of evil.

Let me ask you this. How many times have you heard that in your life? There's evil forces, but they're not personal.

How could an impersonal anything be called evil?

Huck and that which has no personality, no consciousness, no will, no faculty of thought or moral activity, have any kind of moral evaluation placed upon it.

You don't look at rocks and say that's a moral rock, and that's an immoral rock, that's a wicked rock, and that's a good rock.

Do you see that if you think about it for less than five minutes, you see that the idea of an impersonal evil force is a self-contradictory idea.

But it's abstract enough for people to accept it uncritically as a neat little substitute for the idea of a personal devil.

So I don't believe in a personal devil because that insults my intelligence, but I believe that there is such a thing as an impersonal force of evil. Well that insults my intelligence.

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