[lbo-talk] Israel Must Win By Gilad Atzmon

[Carl Remick]

>From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
>
>... I agree that this view is whacky and highly offensive
>but if one holds, as do Orthodox Jews along with
>conservative Christians and Muslims, that God is
>a being who is at once omnipotent, omniscient,
>and omnibenevolent, then really no other view that
>can make sense. All evil events, even the Holocaust
>must necessarily be part of the divine plan and so
>must ultimately result in good, even if we, with our finite intellects,
>cannot perceive this....

My favorite statement of the "God Knows Best" POV is Alexander Pope's 
ringing declaration in "Essay on Man":

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... All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, "Whatever is, is right."
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QED, I guess.

Carl