[Nightcloak]

Not being defensive at all in this post, just letting you know first off.

Yes, by taking things in literal context and so forth and by "interpreting rationale" it would appear that people do take things a little too far. Hence one of the reasons why I have left the religous scene. Although I believe in God, there are simply many things I don't agree with, that do appear down out right mean. Does this make those who do such practices incompetant people? Only those who don't have open minds.

The other thing is that I would like to make apparent that it simply isn't your way of life. You don't know anything from it and it is entirly up to you whether or not you would like to find out more about it. All religions take some things over the top that may seem rediculous to another person in their perspective. It would be difficult to make you understand when your simply not brought up that way.

Now here is the area that aggrivates me, its those people who see a "new" thing or simply don't know enough about a subject and immeadiatly assume they have the right to judge another by their observation without any other input. This doesn't account for everyone or everything, for simply there are some things that are obviously wrong, but for some people to degrade a culture over such small things as. . . keeping kosher? I'm not saying you did, which you didn't but I have seen and heard many things in my very short existance which is sad.

This argument doesn't just pertain to how the majority of the world sees the Jewish culture, but how they see everyone elses cultures. Just because i'm going on about "people and Jews" this and "people and Jews" that, I don't mean to simply block out the other countless races and religions that have their very own severe problems in the world today just because "I don't believe in what you believe."

Religion is a tool for every day life, a guidance for the horrible things not under control by man, the gap for the unexplainable and unreachable, a connection to the things that only emotions can express. I guess what i'm trying to say is, in the end we commonly share the same values, perhaps not the way we practice them, but what we overall strive for.

::edit:: Concerning people making decisions and judging entirely what they see first hand is at its root a natural phenomenon that is uncontrollable. But in being human, we have been given a gift of choice, and choice is something that needs to be used wisely. Things in nature have developed the way it does simply for defensive and survival reasons, so I don't really blame anyone for how they react at first, it just aggrivates me when they can't look past such a basic instinct later.

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[ 06-08-2004, 05:39 PM: Message edited by: Nightcloak ]