Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mudblood - a muggle, not a wizard, because my muggle mother had converted to Reform Judaism, not Orthodox. But I shouldn't despair, he says. There are good muggles and bad muggles, just as there are good and bad wizards. I could still play a (somewhat diminished) role in fighting evil...
...read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling is an astute observer of society. [Hasidim] have their inner truth, and inner logic," just as Rowling's world does...
...Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell)—decide to search for a new home on a mythical planet called Earth, with the attacking Cylons close behind. Wait a second, you say: this sounds suspiciously like “Star Trek,” from the military bent to the evil aliens. You would be correct, were it not for an essential difference: character development. “Star Trek,” as my astute boyfriend once put it, is like an Ayn Rand novel; characters don’t do anything of their own accord, but are just placeholders...
...beheading Immune to garlic and stakes. But they do burn in sunlight They turn to dust when staked in the heart. Sunlight and holy water hurt too Not many. Your best bet is to cut one up and burn the pieces IF YOU MEET ONE... Run. Dracula is evil, persistent and hungry. And he likes the ladies Who knows? Rice's bloodsuckers are frequently perverse and amoral Again: run. Vamps are demonic, so they're not into moral reflection If it's one of the Cullens, you may want to ogle. If not, you're toast
...take a stand on the morality of slavery, while this would be an impossible position for someone who viewed slavery as morally wrong to hold. Similarly, those who advocate for the right to choose, while purporting to stay neutral on the topic of whether abortion is good or evil, predicate their argument on the fact that abortion is not the stain on America’s moral conscience that many believe...