[HiTech RedNeck]

"From my understanding," [Ernest Hemingway] told me, "Judaism, unlike the Christianity in which I was raised, is a religion of life, not a religion of death."

Guess good old Ernie never pondered the blood sacrifice portions of the Old Testament, about which a similar complaint could be lodged.

[gaspar]

Blech, the author of "If God Is Good Why Is the World So Bad", viusalizes the Author of the universe as a sort of basketball referee who often gets things wrong. This hipster approach to theology I'm sure meets with the approval of his left wing buddies and suspect theologians like Sister Mary Boys (the obligatory lefty trotted out by equally left rabbis). Surely, he could have treated the movie honestly by saying he was a prejudiced individual and prepared to dislike it from the moment he entered the theater.

[gusopol3]

When he ran into a woman at the theater who said exactly what he wanted her to say, I began to smell a little Jason Blair in the story; not surprising, then, that he has run into Ernest Hemingway somewhere along the way, who also confirmed his wisdom in a most succinct way. BTW, I thought Hemingway would never use subordinate clauses.