Stop Blaming God, Just Do TOV!!!!

I was looking on FB and saw a quote from Stephen Fry, Top Gear, which set me off! He said –

"Why should I respect a capricious mean-minded stupid God

who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"

Get a GRIP! The Creator created a beautiful, pristine, balanced world. God didn't turn it into a poverty stricken, war ravaged polluted toilet, full of greed and injustice -- HUMANS DID!

Even more so, just because those who wrote down the stories, which have been edited and made to reflect one group’s beliefs or viewpoint, does not mean the Creator, God, Whatever, Higher Power, is exactly what they described! They wrote and talked about "God" as THEY understood it.

Second, there is no such thing as a universally accepted thing called "God," only our PERCEPTIONS of it! Our modern perceptions of Deity are very different than how the ancients saw it – and what we find in our Scriptures.

Stop and turn off your BS filters – that means “Belief System filters – and look at the words that are written in your sacred texts and the Deity. Just in the first ten chapters of Genesis God Learns and Regrets and unbelievably allows humans to do what they and become the teachers. The more modern PERCEPTIONS of the all powerful and all knowing Deity and does not want humans to destroy the planet, its creatures and other humans.

The same question has come up when people ask me how God could allow the Holocaust to happen. I always tell them that God was not to blame for the Holocaust and all the other genocides. Humans were responsible. The Shoah grew out of two thousand years of Jew Hatred taught by human and which is still around by the way. Just turn on the news it's still there.

It is time for HUMANS to take responsibility for the terrible things that have been done in the past and are being done today. It is time for US to do something about OUR empty “Kartrashian society” that is severely lacking in Righteousness, Justice, Compassion and Core Shared Values taught in the ancient wisdom texts that have been passed down to us – and Stop Blaming God!

You want a better, more peaceful, and just world? Learn from the ancient Wisdom of the Beginnings. What would happen if humans had a universal standard they could use to plan and judge their Thoughts, Words and Actions? In the Wisdom of the Beginnings, the Creator has one – the TOV Standard. The lesson from that ancient wisdom is very simple –

Think About, Speak About and Do Acts that Protect Life, Preserve Life,

Make Life More Functional and Increase the Quality of Life.

Stop Blaming God -- Start Doing TOV. Own what HUMANS have done in the past & are doing today and -- put the BLAME where it belongs -- only then can HUMANS join together and do what will make their lives and the lives of others more TOV. Let’s make this our motivation.

Do TOV Choose Life!

Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor

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