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She completely missed the point which HelenSL got, i.e that the Book of Job was written as a corrective to the common notion that suffering is the result of personal spiritual defect. The story's point in part is that gods are capricious and likely to sell out even the most righteous of men on a bet, and onlookers shouldn't assume a cause and effect relationship between sin and ill fortune. It wasn't that god had a plan, just that he was trying to prove a point to the accuser, and we see though it involved killing the family and destroying the property of one of his finest devotees, this didn't make god blink even once. Neat god. I see why Christians love him the way a battered child loves their abuser.
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I loved Mordecai Richler's take on Job in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - One of Duddy's older relatives (grandfather? I forget) with a bit of a criminal past quotes YHWH as saying: "Where the fxxx was you when I creatded de woild?..." It's a scream and well done in the movie.
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