Posted on 04/16/2022 4:33:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The guest essay literally proposes killing God.
“The God-shaped hole” posits that humans are hardwired to seek meaning through a divinity. Certainly, no culture has ever been without a God—and that’s true for Marxist cultures, which have sought to make a god of man, always with deadly results.
The most recent example of this comes from a guest essay at the New York Times from a very angry, lapsed Orthodox Jew who insists that the world would be better if it “passed over” God. It’s a sad, foolish essay but one that the Times thought worth running on the holiest week in America.
Shalom Auslander (a name that roughly translates to “an outsider to peace”) was raised in a very orthodox Jewish community that taught him that God was something so fearful that he lived his life in terror. Not surprisingly, he rebelled and became as fanatically anti-religious as his upbringing had been fanatically religious.
Auslander’s fanatic hostility to God reflects a mind that never progressed beyond its childish understanding of the deity. He explains that, when he was a child, the rabbi at his Yeshiva taught his class that it was a good thing, when the plagues came, that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, necessitating the killing of the Egyptian firstborn to force Pharaoh’s hand:
God, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims would be dragged to The Hague. And yet we praise him. We emulate him. We implore our children to be like him.
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I don’t think the left does not believe there is a God. If they did, they would not be in such a fight against Christianity. They just would not care. I think the left is in rebellion against God.
While religion of various places and periods may have a bit to answer for the abandonment of religious restraint as it pertains to it’s influence on culture has rarely, if ever, produced much good.
Just think of the consequences if the NYT substituted “Allah” for “God” in their article.
As usual, every year.
Predictable as the sunrise.
I believe you are absolutely right. Very sharp insight.
That might prove to be a bit of a problem. I don’t think they read the last chapter of the book. 😀🙃😊
The godless on the left have a myopic fixation which sees only the bad. Sure, God released plagues on the Egyptians. Their view is that he did it just for fun. But he was freeing an entire people from brutal slavery, and leading them to a new land where they would be free. Does that part not count for some reason? Atheists also see themselves as the ultimate good, and therefore don’t need a moral guide beyond themselves. But it only makes them blind to their own shortcomings while judging everyone else by a false standard. One of them asked me once “How can you believe in some old guy sitting on a cloud throwing lightening bolts”? I said “That’s not what I believe”. He replied “Yes you do”. I guess it’s easier to hate something if you insist on misunderstanding it.
...a guest essay at the New York Times from a very angry, lapsed Orthodox Jew. I believe the NYT was bought by a lapsed Jew, and if among the many Jews on its payroll there exists an Orthodox Jew, I will be amazed.
“…And yet we praise him. We emulate him. We implore our children to be like him…
No, genius, we give Him His due Who SPOKE all of this into existence. Placing ourselves on His level or in judgement of Him and His actions is off the scale of the idiotic.
Have a nice eternity Shalom Auslander.
They have got to blame their evil, diabolical attack on humanity on someone. In the last two years it has been Trump who was the devil, then Putin, and now it’s God. I have said for quite some time that there are demons walking among us on this earth, disguised as humans, but soulless demons. Their mission is to destroy God’s creation - the world and humanity. They are deliberately ruining everything in sight and I sense we are spinning ever faster around the toilet bowl into the crapper. Prepare for what’s coming very soon (possibly in a month) that will make the Great Depression look like a picnic.
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“I think the left is in rebellion against God.”
Of course they are. They want Gods power for themselves. When they dismiss God they displace God and become Him. They take Anger and Vengeance as their right. If “vengeful and angry “ doesn’t describe the Left then NOTHING does
People who honestly believe man invented God would admit to and be glad for the society leavened by belief. They’d realize that a society that has hard notions of right and wrong as well as one that places ultimate justice and judgement outside of themselves is far more likely to prosper and extend peace and prosperity to all. Fear of God has us doing for and thinking of others rather than acting only for ourselves .
Agree. Every year during Easter season, articles on “who was Jesus”...”did Jesus really rise from the dead?”...gets real old
’ Follow the Ten Commandments and abide by Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, and you can be reasonably certain that you will be living the best possible life and have a part in creating the best possible community’
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This is the belief of many on the right and the left but unfortunately the writer is dreadfully wrong. If that’s all you are going to do then you’re still going to end up in hell.
Tomorrow we celebrate Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. You might as well be celebrating Mickey Mouse if you don’t fully believe in him. And Jesus told us we must be born again as the only way to the kingdom of God. That means turning from your sin and turning to and accepting Jesus as your savior. Do that and the rest will take care of itself.
“New York Times chooses the holiest week of the year to attack God”
New York Slimes chooses the holiest week of the year to attack God
There, fixed it
I think the left is in rebellion against God.
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AKA Lucifer
Predictable as the Son rise on Easter.
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