[Avodah] Religion and Falsifiability

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, October 19, 2007 9:35 am, R David Riceman wrote:
: Suppose, however, that someone asked you for an example of evil
: behavior, and then produced a survey showing that observant Jews were
: evil in that way more than <picture your favorite control group here>.
: Would that affect you?

To be honest, all it would do is prove my suspicion that there isn't a
statistically meaningful population of people who actually follow the
Torah. Mitokh shelo lishmah ba lishmah doesn't necessarily apply to
the FFH (frum from habit; the keepers of mitzvos anashim meilumadah).

I could also write about the communal shift from aspiring for
ehrlechkeit to frumkeit and what it means in terms of selective
observance, but since I couldn't get that kind of thing past Areivim's
moderators, I'll leave it here with just a "vehameivin yavin".

IOW, it would only falsify our claims that we are "Torah true Jews".
Not the Torah itself.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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