tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406548572654990798.post8460514529357322076..comments2020-07-14T22:05:54.626-07:00Comments on The Modern Rabbi: Re'eh: Dangerous Hurricane TheologyRavHazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06931091309268836557noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406548572654990798.post-47932570965506775572011-08-30T20:03:50.467-07:002011-08-30T20:03:50.467-07:00The explanation for suffering need not include God...The explanation for suffering need not include God. I can't accept that God is responsible for the earthquake in Haiti or Katrina, or for that matter the Holocaust or the my parents' cancers. Likewise, I can't blame the victims either, as some do. Either there is another source for horrible things beyond God's control, or there is a certain randomness in the way that suffering is ladled out to humanity. Regardless, we will never know for sure, and the eternal problem of theodicy will continue to pester us, as it has since at least the time of authorship of the book of Job.RavHazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06931091309268836557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406548572654990798.post-38998767652798014172011-08-30T11:47:57.422-07:002011-08-30T11:47:57.422-07:00Perhaps, but I do think that it's human nature...Perhaps, but I do think that it's human nature to seek an explanation, a why, to have a larger purpose behind larger suffering. It's often easier to accept catastrophe that way. Mind you, I don't think or believe that we will always have the explanations we seek, and I firmly believe that often the ones we get are not the ones we want.<br /><br />-lemminglemminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06767103318863906140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-406548572654990798.post-33377249031781038292011-08-26T13:55:21.013-07:002011-08-26T13:55:21.013-07:00Excellent. Only a primitive like Falwell or the Or...Excellent. Only a primitive like Falwell or the Orthodox would even dream up this kind of idiocy.Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00196997728401884301noreply@blogger.com