[Avodah] Must we agree with the Torah?

[Zev Sero]

On 12/08/2013 10:21 AM, Kenneth Miller wrote:
> RZS again:
>> >One cannot forget the truth just because other people might
>> >not like to hear it.  One needn't necessarily flaunt it in
>> >front of them, but one must remember that it remains true.

> Well put. And oh how very difficult it is, to remember it but not flaunt it. And to avoid flaunting it, yet still remember it.

The simplest and most important step is not to avoid saying it among ourselves.
The trouble begins when we start telling ourselves and our children the lies
that we have to tell those outside, and they -- not knowing any better - come
to believe them.  The lies become "toras imecha", and when someone tells them
the truth they're shocked.  And eventually the same thing even happens to we
who invented the lies in the first place.

Everything that is true *must* be said, but in the right time and place.
And it should never be gratuitously denied.

-- 
Zev Sero               A citizen may not be required to offer a 'good and
zev at sero.name          substantial reason' why he should be permitted to
                        exercise his rights. The right's existence is all
                        the reason he needs.
                            - Judge Benson E. Legg, Woollard v. Sheridan