The Beginning of Knowledge

Here’s one that has escaped Jewish containment that I think people should wrestle with a bit harder:

‎יִרְאַ֣ת יְ֭הֹוָה רֵאשִׁ֣ית דָּ֑עַת חׇכְמָ֥ה וּ֝מוּסָ֗ר אֱוִילִ֥ים בָּֽזוּ׃

Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

‎— משלי 1:7

My take: The belief that the Divine should be perfect and good is a childish condition only supportable in conditions of unrealistically extreme cultural and material comfort and ignorance of both reality and scripture.