In todays world the most evil and vile people are Henry Kissinger and his brother from another mother George Soros. Kissinger would be very much at home at a Wannasse type meeting discussing who he would send to the camps and Soros would be the one planning how to make money from the bones.
No one has mentioned Nixon’s buddy, Mao Tse-tung. He may have caused more premature deaths than Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan, or Timurlane.
My Bible study led me to think that we’re all imperfect and sinful, and we would all be hellbound but for God’s mercy and our own penitence.
So in His judgement a sinner is a sinner, a sinner who repents MAY be worth saving from the fire.
Based on that, our pastor used to say Judas Iscariot gets a bum rap. He pointed out that when Jesus told the disciples one of them would betray him it was because Jesus knew it had to happen, and that might explain why Judas was consumed by guilt (as was Pilate). Both played the part that God’s plan required of them. Neither were happier for doing it.
So it is entirely possible Judas wasn’t any more evil in God’s eyes, than an apostle who denied knowing Jesus three times in order to save his own skin. Or another apostle who refused to believe in the resurrection until he saw Jesus in the flesh. Or another apostle who’d been a tax collector. Or the Old Testament dude who, being a pious but open minded guy, let his daughters be raped.
Most evil man in history? It’d have to be someone who knows what God’s will is, knows what evil is,and has revelled in choosing evil anyway.
At the moment Patriarch Kirill endorses genocide and butchery, and has filled his coffers with more loot than the bishop in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He also ignores the obvious presence of profoundly anti-christian views. But if you take the view that all sin is equal, he’s no more or less likely to be damned than a hippy priest who’s pro abortion.
The only difference would be, which of the two is more troubled by their conscience.
Judas? he doesn’t even rate in the top 20
Mr. Burns,ala The Simpsons.😋
I would also say the intellectual impact of Frederich Nietzsche is something that has wreaked havoc on western culture can put him up as the most evil intellectually.
Marx, that pus ridden demon.