Why is the color black associated with evil?
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In the Bible, good is associated with light and evil is associated with darkness.  The colors white and black are naturally associated with descriptions of light and darkness in human perception, respectively.
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It is a metaphore. Like when they say that Jesus was the son of light. People are afraid of the dark, but as soon as you turn on a light they are not afraid anymore. Therefore, darkness "represents" evil and goodness is represented with light.
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Because  you recognize evil incarnate when you see it
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It has to do with misunderstood Witchcraft. Many witches -- especially back in the old days -- liked to have a physical familiar. A familiar is usually an animal spirit that helps a person when they are in meditation and tells them how to deal with real-life problems. Black is the color of darkness and the unknown... and many witches that had cat familiars figured knew that wanted to know more about the unknown, and to achieve wisdom and knowledge, they bought and bred black cats. But, the Christians of the time saw witches as evil and cruel and Satan Worshipping... so... they assumed that the cats were the bystanders and helpers of the witches who -- they believed -- were servants of Satan.\n\nHope that helped. :3
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I think it is because they use the colour black a lot.\nThis is not considered the most cheerful colour and i suppose it might make you wonder about thier outlook on life.
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It seems like you're arguing semantics to be, but here's my best guess.  Goths have a mindset that accepts death, while dark guys actually like death.
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Because the lighter you are the more you look "pure" like the color white.  White is associated with holiness, good, pure, heavenly while Black is associated with evil, Hell, dirtiness, ugly.
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You are associating with Evil = Not Good.  Because of the religious connotation you are inferring that good = religious.  Since you also equated good = dumb, then by the transitive property of equality, religious = dumb.
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Black reminds one of death, and is depressing. Some fat people think it makes them look thinner, but it draws attention to the fact that they are fat.
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black is a color not a person.
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becuase it is an "unknown" color. Black is a way to stay hidden but black is also a healing color and not many people open their minds to different things and just stay scared so they have to pick on ones who wear black or surround themselves in it. And history does not help as black has been associated with different occult groups and hate groups, so on....\nI personally love black, it's a mixture of all....a healing color, and protective color. \nI suppose people are just twisted and just stay brainwashed..
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In my opinion, "evil" is "self-contradiction."\n\nAlthough bible matter doesn't say this explicitly, I do believe it's the gist of thought all through its contents.
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Black is void of anything. So traditionally, story tellers and Spiritual leaders choose black. It is sort of scary to see something with no reflective value and devoid of light, don't you think?? I wouldn't be scared of a woman or man in pink, in an alley!  would you?
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i think there a sign of evil becus of my religion--hve u ever heard of the mark of the beast? i think tht it is just the begin of wht man wants...i wouldn't get one if i was u tho u never really kno......but thts my opinion......~1~real
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"good" and "evil" are just words of the english language that humans created and humans define. they only mean what the general population wants them to mean
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We see evil as being the very nature of mankind. Our flesh remains in that nature. We always struggle to bring it under submission to the spirit..  That is what that Christian was saying...   Jim
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Because it deals with the dead and evil spirits.  People always tend to view evil as having to do with the devil/Satan.   Then include with that belief the symbols of the black cat, witches, bats and spiders, all symbols of evil or bad things, and the stories of the dead roaming the earth, etc., you have a bunch of people thinking that Halloween is bad.\nNevermind the fact that it was started as a celebration of the end of the harvest and the beginning of winter, nor that the Halloween that we observe was actually started by the "Church" to honor saints and to cleanse the spirits of the dead so they may go into Heaven.