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Square, you’re going in different directions. I answered your claim that it’s childish to have emunah Peshutah. I also answered your question about the value of emunah despite it being fragile. Now you’re pivoting to a different issue, which I’ll address, but I’m starting to think you have a desire for emunah to not be reasonable.

The comparison to the American revolution is not in the content of the event, it’s that something of national proportions is established as a historical fact. I didn’t mean to compare it in attitude, because unless you’re descendant from a US soldier who fought in the revolution, I doubt it would bother you much to question it.

Matan Torah is supposed to be emotional. It was an experience of communication with Hashem. We’re not supposed to be dispassionate about it. Holocaust denial probably bothers you because you know for a fact that it happened, and it trivializes the suffering and deaths of 6 million Jews.

A more visceral response should be triggered at the casting of doubts about matan Torah and the other miracles we experienced before and after for thousands of years, until churban bayis sheni. Denying a G-d that you have a relationship with and who all of your forefathers knew personally should bother you.