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Robert Spencer<\/a> – April 17, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Passover started Friday and Sunday is Easter for most Christians (Orthodox Christian Easter, or Pascha, is next Sunday). In keeping with the season, The<\/em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em> thought Thursday was the perfect day to publish a rancorous anti-God screed written by an angry former believer. The Times<\/em> is now openly proselytizing for atheism, and while that\u2019s certainly its prerogative, it also must be asked: why now, in the lead-in to two of the holiest of times for both Jews and Christians? And also, cui bono<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 who benefits?<\/p>\n The Times<\/em> op-ed was the work of Shalom Auslander, the author of a book called Foreskin\u2019s Lament: A Memoir<\/em>, in which he bitterly recounts his Orthodox Jewish upbringing and how he has said goodbye to all that. He does essentially the same thing in the Times<\/em> piece, presenting some acid recollections of being an eight-year-old learning about Passover, and adding, \u201cIn this time of war and violence, of oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else: God.\u201d<\/p>\n This is because God\u2019s judgment on the Egyptians in the Exodus story seems to Auslander to be excessive. \u201cGod, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born\u00a0cattle<\/em>. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims would be dragged to The Hague. And yet we praise him. We emulate him. We implore our children to be like him.\u201d Auslander adds, \u201cPerhaps now, as missiles rain down and the dead are discovered in mass graves, is a good time to stop emulating this hateful God. Perhaps we can stop extolling his brutality. Perhaps now is a good time to teach our children to pass over God \u2014 to be as\u00a0unlike<\/em>\u00a0him as possible.\u201d That\u2019s the Times<\/em>\u2019 message for Passover and Easter.<\/p>\n Auslander doesn\u2019t explain, of course, where he thinks he got the moral sense that he used to judge God\u2019s actions in the Exodus account as he understands them. The Times<\/em>, of course, has no space to consider answers to Auslander\u2019s theological questions, which have been considered by Jews and Christians throughout the ages who were far more thoughtful than Auslander himself is. It does, however, have plenty of space for Auslander\u2019s practical conclusion: \u201cKilling gods is an idea I can get behind.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/pjmedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Robert Spencer – April 17, 2022 Passover started Friday and Sunday is Easter for most Christians (Orthodox Christian Easter, or Pascha, is next Sunday). In keeping with the season, The\u00a0New York Times thought Thursday was the perfect day to publish a rancorous anti-God screed written by an angry former believer. 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