When speaking to Jews and Christians, Dennis Prager often says that if you served Jews and Christians equally unripe cantaloupe, Jews would complain more because Jews don’t think suffering is good while Christians view suffering as Christlike.
Christianity encourages a passive relationship to personal suffering and to God and to Bible.
On Tuesday, Dennis Prager spent an hour interviewing Stephen Prothero, author of the new book, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter.
Stephen: “There’s a culture of complaint against God in Judaism that Christians find hard. My daughter went to a bat mitzvah recently. She saw this girl get up and read the Torah portion and then complain about it and say this isn’t fair to girls, what’s going on here?
“My daughter thought, how could this be? This is a religious service. She was used to the idea that whatever it says in the Bible is just right and you don’t fight with it. You don’t complain about it. You don’t shake your fist at God.
