From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 19:27:11 MDT
From: "John Grigg" <starman2050@lycos.com>
> ... because of my facial features, I sometimes get asked if I am part
jewish. To the best of my knowledge I am not, but I always wanted to be.
It is a race/subculture which is fascinating to me, and that I really
respect.
Interesting. I sincerely wonder why. While I do respect a person's right
to believe in Judaism (or whatever else they want to believe in from
Astarteism to Zoroastiaism), that's a long way from respecting Judaism
itself. Let's just say I'm ecumenical about all religions - I dislike them
all!
As people Jews are as varied as anyone else - and Judaism itself varies from
ultra-conservative to all-out liberal nontheistic. To begin with (although
admittedly there are other criteria), my respect for an individual Jewish
person would be dependent on how much that person believed in
supernaturalism - the more supernaturalism, the more lost to me that person
would be. (Have you noticed how extremely religious people begin to
resemble the seriously mentally ill?)
JMO,
Olga
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