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Do We Really Need This Kind of Bigotry?
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Hey! Who the hell redacted the title?
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
Now you are just being foolish. All groups, by definition, have their own identity or they wouldn't be a "group". Secondly, can you name one group that doesn't have its own rules, formal and/or informal? Thirdly, any Jew can in reality marry a non-Jew, as it is with my own marriage of 47 years, and some branches, such as mine, allow for that.
To accuse us of "tribalism" just because we have some rules is nuts. Nor do we advocate or promote in any way "murder", so you doubled-down on "nuts" above.
A quick example of the nonsense of your "tribalism" charge: when the atrocities occurred in Kosovo over a decade ago, Jewish Federation flew in many families to the U.S. for protection, and my synagogue took care of seven families for a year, all of them Muslem, at the shared expense between us and Jewish Federation.
Now, tell us again how we are guilty of "tribalism" and our supposedly "dangerous "Us versus Them? C'Mon, tell us another story.
So it was you! Your prejudice against bigoty is duly noted.You're welcome. Gotta have priorities, you know.
No one likes bigoty.
Levite
Higher and Higher
Societies cannot exist without boundaries or rules.
Being a conformist is hardly justification.
I love Havdalah ...
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Tell that to my Father-in-law. He could not.............
........... anymore than he ad his family could have approved of his daughter and myself being together. It's not how you see it, it's how he sees it. Thankyou for the facepalm.........
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I loved it! :sad:
It had become as a friend........ and you murdered.... Bigoty! :sad4:
Eliminating bigoty = murde
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I give up.
We got Liberals. We got Libertarians. Now we got Libertations.
We got Libertines (looks like more fun than the above).
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Yes^^
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls........
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Kahlil Gibran
"Libertation" is a libertarian libation.
(We're fond of adult beverages.)
(We're fond of adult beverages.)
Then there is a subtext that is not being told. Conversions happen all the time.Tell that to my Father-in-law. He could not.............
Levite
Higher and Higher
Very true. In fact, just this past Sunday I helped a nice young lady become a Jew. One of my most pleasant duties and privileges as a rabbi.
On second thought, maybe I am pejudiced against bigoty?
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
And what was she before she started practicing Judaism? Because if she was a Christian that must mean she is now an apostate and a transgressor, right?
Darn! I'm in dire straits now. There is a rule against misrepresenting other forum members, after all.
Avi1001
reform Jew humanist liberal feminist entrepreneur
Right, those are the type we want in our tribe. Interested in signing on, Cynthia.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
OK..... subtext....
He could not become a Jew, nor a Jehovah's Witness, nor a Muslim...... et al.
Think on this........ could you become a Jehovah's Witness, for example?
Well .... could you?
My local JW elder would say 'Yes, Jayhawker could....'
...... but..... could you?
That is the subtext.
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