Hey, what you believe is what you believe, and I've found that with my belief, reasons rarely matter. If you think it's right, then b all means, convert!
Poll: Why shouldn't I convert to Islam?
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I'm not saying we need to keep all our traditions exactly as they've been for centuries. I'm just saying I don't want Judaism to turn into the same as Christianity, where millions of people say they're Christian without it meaning anything to them or knowing what it means.ThrobbingEgo said:All that's ensuring is purity of tradition - and, let me point out that that hasn't worked out very well. If you're all about tradition, the synagogue my family goes to would make your head explode.ElephantGuts said:Yes people are born into it, but they're Jews. They're raised to be good Jews, besides that they have it in their blood.ThrobbingEgo said:Except for the people who just happened to be born into it.ElephantGuts said:
Also aren't the really orthodox families the ones with, like, fifteen kids? Strikes me as a "don't go to the store, make your own" kind of deal.
And please don't say "You can't guarantee that they'll be raised to be good Jews" because obviously not, that would be impossible. But requiring this procedure for conversion is better than nothing.
And by "my head would explode" do you mean it's very traditional or very non-traditional? I don't know if good or bad things make my head explode.
Thirded.Guitarmasterx7 said:
Islam gets such a bad rep 'cause of all the religious terrorism nowadays.
That's because there's nothing inherently wrong with it, just the people that use it to justify violence.lenin_117 said:
Sure, you can't eat pork or lobster, and booze is forbidden, but if it speaks to you, go for it, man.
You're talking about the Ashkenazi jews. There are a few other branches as well, some moved to Spain, some stayed in the area. The Ashkenazi jews are what most people think of when they think of jewish people.SnowCold said:
I'm Ashkenazi.
How'd we get on this topic?
Our head rabbi was female, there's a bit of non-Kosher food in the potlucks (the party sandwiches), there's no wall dividing the genders - we sit with our families, the bat-mitzvah ceremonies are the same as the bar-mitzvah ceremonies, kippah are optional, etc. The synagogue was nicknamed "the church on the hill" by some of the more "religious" jews. That's reform Judaism for you.ElephantGuts said:
A cool thing, though, we shared a parking lot with a mosque. There hasn't been any trouble between the congregations... we were even featured on the local news. Regardless of how I feel about religion, that kind of tolerance is always a step in the right direction.
Ding ding ding ding.Iampringles said:
If I were to be converted from Christianity, Buddhism is the way to it.
I mean, you get infinite amount of lifes, only you have to remember not to be an asshole and do more good things than bad things. And if you get Illuminated, you get sweet deals +5.
Pff that's nothing. If I didn't mention before, I'm reform. That sounds exactly like my temple (even though our Rabbi isn't a girl, but my old temple had a female Rabbi). I'm not bothered by any of it at all.ThrobbingEgo said:
We don't share a parking lot with a mosque though. But, the temple is on Church St. (or maybe it's Church Road, I forget) because not only is there another church on the road, but our temple used to be a church. We took it over from the Christians, probably because they moved to a bigger better church. It's sort of funny, up on the steeple there's a Star of David on the side.
And it actually is on a hill.
