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Oh, hey, it's the dog toy under the couch that you won't find for another four months, Allie 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 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?
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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 be nicer to your coffee table? And if evil exists, and who says so?
With scholar, author, professor, gem of a person, and we'll just say critical ponorologist, Dr. Kenneth McKendrick.
My name is Kenneth McKendrick, and my pronouns are he, him, they, them. Let me jump right in.
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