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MPhil 2003
2003 The Problem of Evil: Anglican and Baptist Perspectives: MPhil thesis, Bangor University Statement thirty-one:
Statement thirty-one stated: The world is becoming increasingly evil. Here 34% of Anglicans agreed, while 26% were not certain, and 40% disagreed. With the Baptists, 58% agreed, 12% were not certain, and 30% disagreed.
I tentatively disagree with this statement. I do believe that our present western culture does appear to be on a moral slide downwards. However, I do not think this means that society is necessarily more evil than culture one hundred years ago, but rather people today are allowed to be more open with their evil because society has greater tolerance for immorality and diversity of opinions. This does not mean, however, that people in past generations were not just as evil in thought and deed.
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December 4 2019
This interesting topic arises as I am following the MPhil questions in order. This has been dealt with previously with three other articles:
Thursday, July 23, 2015 The World Is Becoming More Evil: Revisited
PhD edited version
Sunday, August 11, 2013 Is The World Becoming More Evil? (Survey Comparison)
PhD and MPhil survey comparison
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Is the world becoming more evil?
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OSTRANDER, HAL N. (2004) ‘Defending the faith in a post-Christian era’, The Christian Index, Duluth, Georgia, The Christian Index. http://www.christianindex.org/206.article
