Modern dictionaries reduce evil to mere moral wrongness, stripping its distinct meaning

Evidence

Uncharacteristically, Webster’s flounders: “not good morally; causing or tending to cause harm; the antithesis of good; something that is injurious to moral or physical happiness or welfare” (Webster’s New Third International Dictionary, 1963). Here evil is simply equated with moral wrongness. One gets the feeling that evil is a word falling out of use; it seems redundant with the notion of moral wrongness, bringing archaic baggage such as the notion of sin along with it. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3864

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