The Stranger, October 5th, 2006
In Dubious Battle
Seattle Rep's Doubt Isn't Uncertain Enough by Brendan Kiley
FOR ALL THEIR gruesome obsession with physical tortures, the writers of the Old Testament held psychological pain in special esteem. As a punishment, doubt is introduced toward the end of Deuteronomy's 52 verses of sanctions for disobeying God-four times as many as the verses detailing the "blessings of obedience." After you've got boils on the soles of your feet, mildew on your skin, and your children are slaughtered, the real punishment begins: The Lord gives you "trembling of heart and failing of eyes and sorrow...
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