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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Refuting Abominable Logic
Message-ID: <656@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 14:32:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 14:32:09 1985
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> If Rosen wants to show that the Torah is not tolerant he is right.
> The Torah is not tolerant to murderers,incest,homosexuals,sabath
> desecrators,idol worshipers etc.......
> Don't like it ?? Think it is wrong ??? Who are you against G-ds
> infinite wisdom ??? Is your puny brain what decides right from wrong
> and truth from false ???
> 
>                                           Asher Schechter

Rosen (and all of us) may have puny brains, but that doesn't mean we
shouldn't try to use them...

Yes, Asher, it's our puny brains that decide what's right and wrong,
what's true and false.  Whether those limited facilities decide that
truth and right reside in orthodoxy or heterodoxy, they DO make that
choice, including yours.  Pretending that God has made that choice for
you doesn't wash; after all, you still had to decide whether and what
God had decided for you.

Besides, if God's wisdom is infinite, it follows that Rosen and
Schechter possess the exact same proportion of it.  Rosen's virtue is
that he does not pretend to speak for God while possessing 0% of that
wisdom.

					David Rubin
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