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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: reply to Teitz
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 17:00:14 EST
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> Starving thousands of helpless people in remote third-world countries
> seems to test little.  If we are to believe that God is just and
> merciful we should see it in everyday life... yet reality provides
> glaring contradicitions.  How can we love a God that allows (or
> according to your reasoning CREATES) such suffering when it seems
> to serve no useful purpose?  If anything, reality provides a
> great deal of evidence that God is not merciful or just.
> 

	How can you love any person, who upon hearing of the starving in
 Africa does not donate money to help those who are starving? Not only
 that, but we should send them not only money, but other goods too. How
 can you travel in luxury, in a privately owner car,wasting money on gas
 when you could send that money for food. If you have to get to work, take
 a bus.

	Just as you don't judge people by these standards, so too, don't judge
 G-D by these standards. The question should not be how can G-D let this 
 happen. Rather ask, how can man let it happen.


			Eliyahu Teitz.