A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins

Author:Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780618485390
Amazon: 0618485392
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2003-10-26T21:00:00+00:00

These kosher investigators run a telephone hotline on which up-to-the-minute red-alerts of suspicion are recorded against chocolate bars or cod-liver oil. The rabbi sighs that the green-inspired trend away from artificial colours and flavours ‘makes life miserable in the kosher field because you have to follow all these things back’. When the interviewer asks him why he bothers with this obviously pointless exercise, he makes it very clear that the point is precisely that there is no point:

That most of the Kashrut laws are divine ordinances without reason given is 100 per cent the point. It is very easy not to murder people. Very easy. It is a little bit harder not to steal because one is tempted occasionally. So that is no great proof that I believe in God or am fulfilling His will. But, if He tells me not to have a cup of coffee with milk in it with my mincemeat and peas at lunchtime, that is a test. The only reason I am doing that is because I have been told to so do. It is doing something difficult.

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