ailbhe | The Assignment Continues (Reply)

I've managed 600 words plus quotes so far. Perhaps I should tell you what the question really was, given the response I got before: "Is the free-will defense a convincing solution to the problem of evil?" (and yes, I think it is, if you think that evil is a problem).

Query - does it bother any of the Jews reading my journal that I write God out in full? Would you be more comfortable if I wrote G-d? I'm not hugely religious either way, you see, but I've read the reasons why religious Jews never write the full name out in a public place.

Now I feel like I've done a bad thing by writing "Jews". I used to feel this way when I wrote "black people" and "Pakistanis". I'm not making a bigoted generalisation or being offensive, I'm asking a question so that I can not be offensive. Now stop feeling guilty, Ailbhe.