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176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
You have attacked Rabbi Kushner for “insulting God.” You then repeated this accusation in further comments.
This is the precise formula used by all fundamentalists - militant Islamicists, radical Buddhists, and American Evangelicals - to characterise their targets.
But God does not need defending from anyone, especially not from people like Rabbi Kushner. It is people like Rabbi Kushner who desperately need defending from those who claim inside knowledge about God, such as yourself.
Given the unsavoury and thinly veiled anti-Semitic character of your remarks, I have little doubt that you and your co-religionists would slip once again into active persecution if you only had the political power to do so.
So why not cut it out and recognise that your personal divine revelation is merely a justification for uninformed and irrational prejudice?
In order to let us be free, in order to let us be human, God has to leave us free to choose to do right or to do wrong. If we are not free to choose evil, then we are not free to choose good either. Like the animal, we can only be convenient or inconvenient, obedient or disobedient. We can no longer be moral, which means we can no longer be human.
~ Harold S Kushner ~