Anonymous asked Staff ago
Hi. My name is Sari Cohen. I became secular about a year ago. How should I put this? I’m really not content with not fulfilling the commandments. I violate the Sabbath, I don’t fast on Yom Kippur. Let’s just say that the commandments really aren’t for me.
I wanted to ask: What happens to a person who doesn’t fulfill the commandments?
jsadmin Staff answered 22 years ago
Dear Sari,
The commandments written in the Torah are commandments determined by flesh and blood humans who, in their impudence attributed them to G-d. We have proven this throughout our essays.
There is no more contemptible G-d than the Jewish G-d as invented by the Jewish Sages. He is a god who angers easily and does not permit freedom of religion and conscience. A god who kills young children for their parents’ sins. A god who places the death penalty on people because of their sexual orientation (homosexuality). Why would a good and gracious “god” place the death penalty on one who lights a fire on the Sabbath? Why would a god create man and then command him to torture himself on Yom Kippur?
In other words: If man had to invent a god, at least it should have been a good and gracious god, not a frightening and evil one.
In addition, every person has to think and contemplate within himself and determine for himself what is the path he thinks best to follow, and to act accordingly, not subjugate himself to commands written in centuries old texts.
Sincerely,
Daat Emet