The Book of Job is very problematic. Many people have said that it is just an allegory or a metaphor for dealing with the problem of pain. Maybe it is, maybe it is not. I am not sure. However, the most relatable part of it  for me (as I have

So all this time Americans have thought that suicide bombers and other terrorists from the Mid-East were sacrificing their lives so that they would be rewarded by Allah with an afterlife of great abundance including hundreds of virgins and other distinctly more hedonistic than heavenly values, but did you know