[May 1999 journal entry]
Is there a link between the tragic reality of social injustice (against which the ‘prophets’ in Jewish scripture spoke) and personal/individual suffering (which the author/narrator of the story/play Job interprets to be innocent and not just)? To be consistent, must the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm attribute social injustice (e.g., slavery, economic oppression, discrimination, . . .) to ‘God’ in the same way individual/personal suffering is attributed immediately or indirectly to ‘God’? I think so.
Is there a link between the tragic reality of social injustice (against which the ‘prophets’ in Jewish scripture spoke) and personal/individual suffering (which the author/narrator of the story/play Job interprets to be innocent and not just)? To be consistent, must the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm attribute social injustice (e.g., slavery, economic oppression, discrimination, . . .) to ‘God’ in the same way individual/personal suffering is attributed immediately or indirectly to ‘God’? I think so.
