Allen, why do you think we seem to need to assign punishment to everything? Your friend is not they only one who thinks G-d is punishing us for everything under the sun. The need to feel punished must fall into human nature along with us fighting our human nature. "Life" is a magazine "Life" is a cereal "Life" is a box of chocolates I prefer chocolates We could have the start of a song here
Binah On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ash <[email protected]> wrote: > "Life" is also a cereal. > > I recently tried to convince someone that natural disasters were not a > punishment from her God for those who do not believe. It didn't go too well > and turned into an angry lecture on my part. Basically substitute > "scripture" for "life" in a crash course of anthropology and spirituality, > that's what it was. Why do I feel guilty?.. If it shakes her faith and hope > I'll be damned, if she reflects and understands the larger reality it will > strengthen. Sometimes to what seems at first an academic matter, with > empathy and understanding, we find a great responsibility in the actions we > take. > > Risk. Isn't there a song about life being a poker game? > > > >
