[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:28:21 EST
Bless you!
Julie Krueger
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JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Okay, I'm going to have trouble here trying to refer to what I want to
> because my memory seems to have gone into a black hole somewhere.
> There's a book written (I THINK) by Elie Weisel, the title of which I
> have no clue at the moment. The essence of the book is that a group
> of Rabbis hold a court of sorts; they put God on trial, after the
> Holocaust. They level charge after charge against Him for his
> recklessness with human lives, etc. When the trial is over they put
> on their prayer shawls and pray. If someone recognizes this elusive
> tale I'd love to know it so I can read it again. But the point is,
> that after putting God on trial, the next response is simply to
> worship Him. I'm not sure what that means in a western Aristotelian
> philosophy, but it means something outside of that confine.
>
> Julie Krueger
>
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