Al Gore and the
Absence of Truth
"Evil is a negation, because
it is the absence of truth."
— Mary Baker Eddy,
founder of Christian Science,
in Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures,
(Boston, 1906,
page 186, line 11)
M. Scott Peck on evil:
"There are quite popular
systems of thought these days,
such as Christian Science
or the Course in Miracles,
which define evil as unreality.
It is a half-truth. The spirit of evil
is one of unreality, but it itself
is real. It really exists."
"We must not fall back into Saint
Augustine's now discarded doctrine
of the 'privatio boni,' whereby evil
was defined as the absence of good.
Satan's personality cannot be
characterized simply by
an absence, a nothingness."
— People of the Lie:
The Hope for Healing Human Evil,
by Morgan Scott Peck, 1986.
(Touchstone paperback,
2nd ed., 1998, page 208)
Al Gore on M. Scott Peck:
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He did?
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he didn't exist."
— Verbal Kint in "The Usual Suspects"