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From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman)
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Subject: Re: The Book of Job and the value of human life
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 08:48:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 08:48:38 1985
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	First, may I thank Carolyn Clark for some truly excellent
articles on the Book of Job and other examples of the evils of God.
Charley Wingate claimed that her retort ``doesn't even begin to scratch
the surface,'' but it seems to me that it hits the nail right on the
head. And it addresses issues Charley and his fellow God whorshipers
seem to ignore. Charley's ultimate defense of God is this: ``the morality
of God's actions is unquestionable by man.'' Certainly this is an
example of how God has convinced people like Charley that whatever His
actions, whatever He does to them, He is ``good.'' Blindly accepting
an idea like that is frightening, isn't it? Yet people do this in the name
of the evil Damager-God all the time.

	Isn't it strange that it is claimed that the Book of Job is an
exception to the other books in the Bible? Charley says that, unlike the
other books of the Bible, THIS one should not be taken literally. Why the
sudden exception to the rule? It seems that the desire to claim that this
one book is an exception to the rule, the rule of the Bible as inerrant
factual historical word of God, is based on a wish to justify God's evil.
Charley seems to be saying ``In this case, don't believe that these
really represent real things God did, because we are unable to justify
them after the fact as well we have done for other actions.'' Charley,
why would you seek to go out of your way to justify the evil of the
Damager-God in such a distorted way?

Be well,
-- 
Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
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