I think I'm going with the long version <g>. I once owned the book ..... about the time dinosaurs roamed the earth .... and have no idea what happened to it. It's obviously high time I replaced it. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil Date: 3/10/06 1:13:56 A.M. Central Standard Time From: _john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: _JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxxx (mailto: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. You will find a short version of this story in the book THE WORLD'S WISDOM edited by by Philip Novak ( ISBN: 0060663421). (This book is a companion to Huston Smith's THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS.) The ending goes something like this: "You can be a Jew for God. You can be a Jew against God. But you can't be a Jew without God." -- ------------------------------------------------- "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence and ignorance." ------------------------------------------------- John Wager _john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx) Lisle, IL, USA