Abstract
AbstractMilan Kundera suggests that human excrement poses a special problem for classical theism. Is there really a problem here, and if there is, how might the theist respond? This article explores Jewish sources in order to construct a real philosophical problem from Kundera's concern, and suggests two responses to that problem, both, once again, drawn from the Jewish tradition.
Highlights
Few people have given voice to the profound religious and existential questions that arise from human excrement as well as Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I quote: Captured by the Germans during the Second World War, he was placed in a camp together with a group of British officers
The British officers resented having their latrine smeared with shit, even if it was the shit of the son of the most powerful man in the world
Summary
Can the natural world of God’s creation really contain filth? Either/or: either man was created in God’s image – and God has intestines!
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