Posted on 03/12/2007 2:53:57 PM PDT by US admirer
In the "crime and punishment" part of The International Campaign to Save the Nation and the Land - associated with an offshoot of the Chabad movement - the sin is "the crime of the disengagement" and the "expulsion" of 10,000 people from their homes. The punishment takes various guises: removal from office, resignation, illness, a commission of inquiry or a criminal conviction. The campaign called "There is Justice and a Judge," which the organization embarked on recently, asserts that everyone who was a partner to the "crime of expulsion" or did not act to prevent it has received or will receive his punishment from heaven.... one out of every four religious and ultra-Orthodox people in Israel believes former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's illness is a punishment from heaven in the wake of the disengagement plan... The list of the "curse victims" was complied by the heads of the campaign, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe and his colleague from the United States, Rabbi Yekutiel Tapp, and has been distributed in more than 1 million copies in synagogues throughout the country. The list begins with Sharon, who sank into a coma after a cerebral hemorrhage... This faith leads many to accept or at least not to reject the possibility that is suggested by the campaign... However, within the religious and ultra-Orthodox public, there are those who are shocked and angered by the campaign... if the Holy One, Blessed be He, is so angry at the "expellers," why didn't He prevent the expulsion from the outset? Secondly, it isn't only the "expellers" who are suffering, but also some of the "expelled" - to this very day...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley
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