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"The evil deny the suffering of their guilt - the painful awareness of their sin, inadequacy, and imperfection - by casting their pain onto others through projection and scapegoating"

"And why the evil do this is also insructive.....to avoid pain themselves!

It's basic, craven fear with its comcomitant selfishness on display.

For those with "eyes to see", that is."

Read recently about one of the benefits of accepting Islam. You get a clean slate regardless of what you were guilty of doing and are regarded with equal stature without the need to repent as though you didn't do anything wrong in the first place.

I can see why that would appeal to those in denial of the guilt hidden even in the deepest recesses of their hearts and refusing to come under conviction. With such a perspective, their 'sins' were self-justified and they continue to be practiced, condoned and accepted and believe they have no need of remission.

Self-deception -- the source of all sin. Abandoning their spiritual nature for the fruit of license.

I suppose that is why they have even stocked their version of 'heaven' with all the pleasures of the flesh. There has to be a pay-off somewhere for their 'submission' in terms they can relate to and look forward to. It's all about sex. Heh. Regretable.

And yes, Texaspeptoman, salient points! Guilt that is un-remitted hides deeper and causes psychosis. I think you're right about transference and casting its pain onto others. Strange that it's referred to as the religion of peace when nothing can be further from the truth. But I suppose Pax Islama is better than no peace at all if you've not known true peace. The old debbil rings up another sale, trading another bowl of porridge for another soul who forgot that the restaurant belonged to him in the first place.

You get a clean slate regardless of what you were guilty of doing and are regarded with equal stature without the need to repent as though you didn't do anything wrong in the first place.

I don't know about this, wiping the slate clean has internal benefits, but whether the slate is clean on the holy register is something all men should be concerned with. In reading the Haj, (Leon Uris) and his take is that muslims have different levels of deprication regarding to whom the sin is related to. If an infidel, the sin is not so great. So what, evil will be defined as it is in the western countries, (that is judaism and christianity) when we win. If we don't win, not much will matter.