Dr. Marc Gafni
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Podcast Appearances
He said, without God, all is permitted and nothing really matters.
And that's how Camus, after his great ostensible denial of God, he expresses it by beginning his novel, The Stranger, which is, mother died today, or was it yesterday?
So the point is,
the only way we can call something evil and understand our unimaginable reprehensible, our revulsion, that's the word.
We're revolted by evil because there's a field of God.
And I can't, I mean, I could not live in a world where we couldn't say that torture is evil.
You can't live in that world.
But without God, you can't say torture is evil because...
Why not?
It hurts?
Well, okay.
And it hurts in the jungle.
In other words, the notion that there is a violation of the good is because there is God.
That's why David writes, taste and see that God is good.
And that's unimaginably important.
All evil is a failure of the intimate universe.
Evil is a failure of intimacy.
If there's no intimate universe...
There's no evil.
There might be objective pain, right?