Some of the letters on this page are confusing. For example, in a Nov. 22 letter “Evil permitted to stir up repentance,” Gorman Gray cites a Biblical passage from the Book of Chronicles. It states that God “stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians” to attack decadent Judah. From this, Gray concludes that God is now stirring up Islamist violence to reproach unrepentance here in America.
I’m no religious scholar but wasn’t the Old Testament God always kind of short-tempered and retributive in the first place? This would explain his attitude toward Judah during the pre-Christian era, it seems to me.
Would Gray also declare that God helped bring forth the Holocaust to express displeasure with the European Jews? Certainly, more than a few of them were nonobservant. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud are two names that come to mind. They managed to escape, unlike so many others.
