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The problem of predestination and free will, which has also exercised Christians, indicates a central difficulty in the idea of a personal God. An impersonal God, such as Brahman, can more easily be said to exist beyond "good" and "evil," which are regarded as masks of the inscrutable divinity. But a God who is in some mysterious way a person and who takes an active part in human history lays himself open to criticism. It is all too easy to..
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men and women were naturally prone to lie, steal, and murder, and these evil impulses could be forcibly held in check only by a strong, authoritative government.
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The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.
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Elle Wiesel, premio Nobel, habia vivido solo para Dios durante su infancia en Hungria; su vida habia estado configurada por el Talmud y esperaba ser iniciado un dia en los misterios de la cabala. Cuando era nino lo llevaron a Auschwitz y, despues, a Buchenwald. Durante su primera noche en el campo de concentracion, al ver el humo negro que subia en espiral hacia el cielo desde el horno crematorio donde iban a meter los cuerpos de su madre y..
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