"What's more evil, murdering someone or eating a spoonful of peanut butter?" What a strange question! You know the typical answer. Of course, it's more evil to murder someone. I won't argue with you, but consider....
If you kill someone, you are "playing God."
When I talk about eating a spoonful of peanut butter, I'm not talking about providing sustenance to prevent starvation over the next day or to run a marathon. I'm talking about lasting another hour...another 20 minutes.... long enough for the microwave to beep its announcement that my "other" snack is done. I'm talking about when our appetites - for whatever - "play God." In that sense, the actions are equal.
Here is the critical question. To which temptation do we give in more often? The good news and the bad news for me is that I give in to eating peanut butter by the spoonful.
Pick your own evil for the comparison. Which is more evil, to murder someone or to ____________________? The greatest evil is the evil that you do, not the evil that you don't.
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