This is the 9th part in an Unorthodoxy series on the book of Job. It also happens to be something of an interlude on the way to the two-part conclusion to the series. Here, I read GK Chesterton's wonderful essay "Introduction to the book of Job"—an essay referred to often by the philosopher Slavoj Žižek but without him always taking into account the larger argument of the essay. Chesterton offers a fresh take on Job that we'd all do well to pay attention to. It's wise and funny—filled with helpful and interesting insights. It asks whether God could be the ultimate skeptic, and perhaps even the ultimate blasphemer, and presents the astonishing idea that paradoxes are more comforting than answers. 

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