[Avodah] Was Lavan daft, dense or what?

[Zev Sero]

Arie Folger wrote:
> RZS wrote:
>> So Lavan wasn't surprised to be visited by his nephew's god, and took
>> heed of the warning he got.  He didn't attempt to do anything to
>> Yaakov.  But nor did he see any reason to stop worshipping his own
>> gods, whom he had no reason to believe less powerful than lehavdil
>> ours.

> Indeed, you confirm that even direct revelation can be interpreted
> away or rationalized if one is so inclined. That should teach us a
> thing or two about the importance of proofs for religion in trying
> to sway the sceptic... proofs aren't all that important, experiencing
> Shabbbos far surpasses them.

No, I'm saying that there was nothing in the revelation that ought to
have made him reexamine his pagan beliefs.  All the revelation showed
him was that there is at least one god, which he already believed.
Why exactly should he have deduced from the confirmed existence of one
God that all other gods are false?

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