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Religion as moral confusion

שו”תCategory: faithReligion as moral confusion
asked 4 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
I recently heard the following argument against God:
If we heard a story in which a man came to a righteous religious family at night, threatened them with a gun, tied them up, tortured them all night, and finally killed them and then burned the entire house and the people in it. After that, the police caught him and asked the man, why did he do it? And he replied: The devil convinced me to do it. We would probably say that that man is a wicked, evil man.
Indeed, the Book of Job describes a righteous man who did only good, and then God kills all his children and causes him to suffer illnesses and other bad things. And when they investigate why he did what he did, they realize that he did it because Satan convinced him. However, here people will say that God is not an evil being.
Doesn’t religion cause moral confusion?


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מיכי Staff answered 4 years ago
This is not religion, this is a certain interpretation of the book of Job. I have already written more than once that it is impossible to learn anything from the books of the Bible, because they are open to many interpretations. In particular, there is a side to the fact that Job did not exist and was not created, and therefore it is a story that comes to teach us something and not real events.

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אבי replied 4 years ago

Rabbi, isn't there a contradiction here? On the one hand, you say that nothing can be learned from books, and on the other hand, you say that the story is meant to teach us something.

מיכי replied 4 years ago

This is a two-tiered argument: A. It cannot be learned. B. Even if it is, it is not a fact but some kind of message.

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