In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow. Sign up here. Ready for your next read? It is people like Rabbi Kushner who desperately need defending from those who claim inside knowledge about God, such as yourself. Given the unsavoury and thinly veiled anti-Semitic character of your remarks, I have little doubt that you and your co-religionists would slip once again into active persecution if you only had the political power to do so.
So why not cut it out and recognise that your personal divine revelation is merely a justification for uninformed and irrational prejudice?
Post-Postscript: the issue of divine power is one that has plagued Christian thought ever since it adopted Greek philosophy. Very few have dared mess with the disastrous mistake. Heidi The Reader. Kushner wrote the book because his son was born with progeria, a disease where his body aged much faster than it should, and he died young. It shook Kushner to his core. How could it be happening to me, to my son, if what I believed about the world was true?
Kushner methodically picks apart traditional explanations for why tragedy strikes. When he's through, none of them hold water. A parent who disciplines a child for doing something wrong, but never tells him what he is being punished for, is hardly a model of responsible parenthood. Yet, those who explain suffering as God's way of teaching us to change are at a loss to specify just what it is about us we are supposed to change.
It's no secret that earlier this year, I changed jobs - from a reference librarian to a writer in a newsroom. I picked up this book because I was going through a spiritual crisis of sorts. It's not that I'm overly-religious, but I am spiritual. I believe in things we can't see or explain. I believe in the goodness of people and the universe. In my job, every day, I read and hear about terrible things that happen for no reason at all. Sometimes, I write about families who lost a child to a rare disease or I read a story about someone dying in a car or motorcycle accident, and I think, "Why do things like this happen?
Kushner says, don't look for God or goodness in the bad things, look for the good in the response or what comes after. I now try to look for the good in the response to tragedy and, wouldn't you know, I find it. Every day, there's someone who's kind or generous or brave. The goodness was always there. I just had to change where and how I was looking for it. Skylar Burris. Author 20 books followers. Rabbi Kushner's position is that, because suffering exists in the world, only three options are possible: 1 God does not exist.
He chooses explanation 3. Explanation 4 , that God exists, is good, and is all-powerful, but for reasons we cannot now fully comprehend, chooses to allow suffering, is not an option. Despite its unsatisfying theology, I was reminded of three very important things from this book, which was well written and contained some powerful passages: 1 God is not on the side of those who cause suffering, but of those who suffer.
For my foreigner friends, this impeachment trial of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines has been one of the favorite topics for discussion nowadays among us Filipinos.
Our Chief Justice is facing 8 Articles of Impeachment. Among these are failure to disclose to the public his statement of assets and liabilities, partiality and subservience in cases involving the ex-President Arroyo, etc.
While looking at that headline, I recalled this book. Very timely. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner born wrote this very inspiring book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, as a tribute to his son Aaron, who at the age of 14, died of the incurable disease progeria. In this book, Rabbi Kushner says that God has no capacity to control everything that happens on earth or to us.
Many of what happen to us are due to the choices that we take or things that we do to ourselves and to others. Shame on him for dragging God to the problems that he seems to have created by himself or with cohorts. However, if what Corona says is true, i. Rabbi Kushner aptly titled this book: take note that it is not "Why" but "When. The reason is that God gave us the free will to decide.
So, when tragedy strikes to us, we should not ask God "Why me? Anyway, God has promised not to forsake those who believe in Him. My favorite part is Rabbi Kushner's analysis of The Book of Job where he mentions exactly his treatise above.
God is not that all-powerful to control everything that happens on earth. He does not have the power to control what happened in the Holocaust.
He did not will the death of the Jews. Those were the actions of men. Thank you to my friend, Barbara, for recommending this book to me.
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