If you have lost faith or have never known it, or if you have ever wondered "What can religion offer?" here are wise and thoughtful answers. With the warmth, insight, and understanding that distinguished his phenomenal bestsellers When Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do We Have to Be?, Harold Kushner addresses a critical issue in the lives of many: a spiritual hunger that no personal success can feed. Rabbi Kushner shows how religious commitment does have a place in our daily lives, filling a need for connection, joy, and community.
For anyone who has ever wanted a more fulfilling life or wished to make a difference in the lives of others...for anyone who has ever felt guilty, afraid, or alone...Rabbi Kushner shares a path to faith that offers new sources of comfort and strength for all of us. Powerful, provocative, and persuasive, Who Needs God is a message of universal appeal.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Sharing the Light of Knowledge:
There is so much in this scarry world that we don't understand. It's nice to get another persons point of view.
innocuous but not for everyone:
A nice, innocuous, not-too-deep book- designed not for scholars but for the sort of person who might believe in God but feels no particular Divine command to do anything and is turned off by organized religion. Thus, this is not a book for Christian fundamentalists or observant Jews, but for people who are trying to decide between some sort of liberal religion and no religion at all. Kushner's goal is to defend religion to such people. He asserts that religion "helps us not by changing the facts, but... more info
Thought provoking...not "pushy":
Regardless of your religious affiliation, or not, Rabbi Kushner provides thought provoking ideas for everyone. Not pushing the reader to believe, but offering reasons and options to believe. I would suggest to anyone, of any religious conviction, or lack of, looking to explore a few of the "why" reasons to believe. He leaves the final decision to the reader.
The difference religious faith can make:
In this book, Rabbi Harold Kushner, answers the question of those who ask what difference religion can make in our lives, why do we need religion. He explains the importance of faith through community.
How faith can enrich our lives and give us strength when all the strength within in us dried up.
That there are absolute standards of good and evil built into the human soul which the author describes as 'G-D given'.
"The affirmation of monotheism- that there is only one G-D and He... more info
