luchitociencia
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Revenge is not evil, it's an act of righteous justice.
I'm so lucky I don't belong to your religious sect... pheeeew!
You better learn that from God, his teachings, you doing an act of revenge means you have let evil controlling you.
Revenge THRU the correspondent authority like a judge, becomes justice, and justice is righteous.
You just can't generalize revenge as justice.
God told you very clearly, you just can take revenge by your own. And that He is the only one who has authorized to Himself to do it. In other words, he can do the evil thing, you don't. And it is evil because it won't do any good but satisfaction. It is evil because will cause harm to others.
The language Rabbis tend to use is specifically precise and loaded,
to both cover the literal and and apparently provoke much deeper questions
that are expected to be raised due to the choice of the formulation.
Pure stories haggadah style. Those were cheap philosophy which were wrongly taken as wisdom.
You're not supposed to agree, but further question and research the context of the discourse, i.e. what are the arguments and questions tackled directly, and specifically indirectly.
How are you going to research a context which is full of mediocre insight? That is a waste. In my reply I debunked the rabbi's thoughts with simple practical argumentation. Nothing more in need of research. Unless, of course, you try to justify his words and I might be expecting more babbling from you.
And in this specific quote the Chofetz Hayim alludes to the ability given to man to actually justify the creation of the evil inclination, i.e. the imagination and material body form, by standing to its urges and directing them to align with the purpose of creation, and thus raise the entire creation to higher purpose.
See? It appears you have never understood Torah. "Creation of the evil inclination?"
Oh come on, that is too much. Your thoughts reveal that it's not evil but ignorance ruling in your brain.
When man withstands the tests of the evil inclination, it is as well awarded for assisting man in becoming righteous. When man chooses to follow evil inclination, it robs man if his virtue.
Wow. No need to say no more. You are a Christopher Columbus discovering America... an Al Gore inventing the internet...
In reality you just have mixed second thoughts based on sane doctrine to support your first thoughts based on imaginations. Nice try.
Not only can man withstand his evil inclination, but also navigate it for good purpose.
Evil only carries more evil. More stains in your clothes won't make them look clean. This is final.