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The Mikado
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« on: October 17, 2012, 02:47:38 PM »

The gap between Orthodox Judaism and Reform Judaism can compete with the difference between evangelical fundamentalism and uh...whatever you are. It's a big gap.

It's far bigger, actually.  The cultural gap between a secular Reform Jew and an Orthodox Jew is bigger than the cultural gap between an evangelical Christian and a secular mainline Protestant by orders of magnitude in terms of the effect on one's life.  If you are an Orthodox Jew, that is who you are on a fundamental level.  A typical Orthodox Jew has to live somewhere that's within walking distance of his shul (congregation), in a likely 90%+ Orthodox Jewish neighborhood (due to the prohibition on driving on the Sabbath), wears distinctive clothing that sets himself apart from the rest of the population, and has to constantly interact with religious regulations in determining what to eat, what to say, who to interact with, etc. that they end up in a relatively small world.  These issues are doubled when dealing with serious ultra-Orthodox Haredim.  To come up with a comparison for Christians you'd need to compare a normal Christian to the Amish.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2012, 02:04:10 PM »

Interesting, because my rabbi, a gay marriage performing, DNC speaking, high profile Rabbi refuses to marry Jews and non-Jews.

Then it's pretty sad that we let such a bigot speak at the DNC. Imagine if some pastor refused to marry Christians and Jews. Neither party would want anything to do with them.

Things are different with minority populations, you know, especially ones where things like religion are explicitly (rather than tacitly) passed down via bloodline. Not necessarily good, but different.

...and we would all be up in arms if a Christian group did the same thing and calling them a cult. Maybe we should meassure all people by the same meassure.

People get up in arms about the Amish?  (And at least Orthodox Jews use electricity six days a week)
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