Um… were you ever really Modern Orthodox? What about “Baruch Dayan Emes” after someone dies, or the continual affirmation of God after tragedy with kaddish? You, sirrah, have many blind points on this subject. I believe that God gave the Torah. God is not wrong. God created humanity, and He does not have to treat them as thinking beings beyond the dispensation He gave. He destroyed the Egyptian army, as was His right, and yet He STILL mourned and would not let the angels sing, yet He allowed the humans because He understood they could not be expected not to celebrate. You shouldn’t talk about things you don’t understand, since you clearly haven’t learned very much of the Midrash or, for that matter, much about Judaism period.
I’m sorry your experience with religion scarred you. That doesn’t give you the right to make broad generalizations.
EDIT: To those who down-voted me, my point is that his fundamental premise is that any “real” question will lead to his answers, i.e. rejection of faith. That’s narrow-minded and not at all rational
For the record, the simplest answer may be the best way to go based off of information, but germs weren’t the simplest answer when it came to figuring out where disease came from. History shows, again and again, that what seems to be the simplest answer is often wrong. So I don’t like your logic.
And that’s a lovely quote at the end. Truly. But I don’t think it entails the rejection of God or Judaism to question what I believe.
Besides, how can we ever know what’s true? I like Kant’s system for this. We can’t know what the real world looks like, only what our brain understands. For all I know, you’re not real. I’m not real. The point is, knowing is impossible, and truth is impossible without some sort of leap of faith. You choose to trust your brain. I trust in God, which makes a lot more sense to me.
Um… were you ever really Modern Orthodox? What about “Baruch Dayan Emes” after someone dies, or the continual affirmation of God after tragedy with kaddish? You, sirrah, have many blind points on this subject. I believe that God gave the Torah. God is not wrong. God created humanity, and He does not have to treat them as thinking beings beyond the dispensation He gave. He destroyed the Egyptian army, as was His right, and yet He STILL mourned and would not let the angels sing, yet He allowed the humans because He understood they could not be expected not to celebrate. You shouldn’t talk about things you don’t understand, since you clearly haven’t learned very much of the Midrash or, for that matter, much about Judaism period.
I’m sorry your experience with religion scarred you. That doesn’t give you the right to make broad generalizations.
EDIT: To those who down-voted me, my point is that his fundamental premise is that any “real” question will lead to his answers, i.e. rejection of faith. That’s narrow-minded and not at all rational
For the record, the simplest answer may be the best way to go based off of information, but germs weren’t the simplest answer when it came to figuring out where disease came from. History shows, again and again, that what seems to be the simplest answer is often wrong. So I don’t like your logic.
And that’s a lovely quote at the end. Truly. But I don’t think it entails the rejection of God or Judaism to question what I believe.
Besides, how can we ever know what’s true? I like Kant’s system for this. We can’t know what the real world looks like, only what our brain understands. For all I know, you’re not real. I’m not real. The point is, knowing is impossible, and truth is impossible without some sort of leap of faith. You choose to trust your brain. I trust in God, which makes a lot more sense to me.