hmm I wouldnt say I have tried the other variants, but I have explored their belief structures.
why would I not consider becoming one?
because while I may not choose to follow a particular law for one reason or another
I do not believe any less that it was god's command.
To say that the will of god is outdated and call yourself a jew, that I find hard to swallow.
If we are speaking of an aspect or extrapolation of a commandment, for example, in the torah, it forbids the cooking of a kid in its mothers milk, now orthodox rabbis have extrapolated this to say, that you should not only not eat milk and meat together, but you should not eat milk and fowl together. God did not say dont eat cheese on your chicken and you can freely eat eggs with chicken. so to say that you feel differently and will eat a chicken sandwich with cheese is not saying that god was wrong but that a man was. and I can accept that easily.
but I have heard the arguement, (not that I am assigning it to your lips) that pork was forbidden because for health reason, as pork like chicken or turkey must be cooked to 165 degrees as opposed to 150 for beef and lamb, in order to ensure that any harmfull bacteria have been killed, and since we can now properly prepare it that it is no longer necessary to follow that commandment.
to this I call bullshit. In the torah it says specifically, in fact swine is the only animal forbidden by name to be eaten. (all the rest are excluded by lack of required characteristics)
so those who eat swine, primarily reform, are saying, yes I am jew, and I believe in the torah, but god was wrong here, so I have decided to correct it in my life.
it is simply a bullshit justification of their sin, and that quite frankly disturbs me more, than the fact that they eat swine.
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Date: 2000-12-11 03:40 am (UTC)I wouldnt say I have tried
the other variants, but I have
explored their belief structures.
why would I not consider
becoming one?
because while I may not
choose to follow a particular
law for one reason or another
I do not believe any less
that it was god's command.
To say that the will of god
is outdated and call yourself
a jew, that I find hard to swallow.
If we are speaking of an aspect or extrapolation of a commandment, for example, in the torah, it forbids the cooking of a kid in its mothers milk, now orthodox rabbis have extrapolated this to say, that you should not only not eat milk and meat together, but you should not eat milk and fowl together. God did not say dont eat cheese on your chicken and you can freely eat eggs with chicken. so to say that you feel differently and will eat a chicken sandwich with cheese is not saying that god was wrong but that a man was.
and I can accept that easily.
but I have heard the arguement, (not that I am assigning it to your lips) that pork was forbidden because for health reason, as pork like chicken or turkey must be cooked to 165 degrees as opposed to 150 for beef and lamb, in order to ensure that any harmfull bacteria have been killed, and since we can now properly prepare it that it is no longer necessary to follow that commandment.
to this I call bullshit. In the torah it says specifically, in fact swine is the only animal forbidden by name to be eaten. (all the rest are excluded by lack of required characteristics)
so those who eat swine, primarily reform, are saying, yes I am jew, and I believe in the torah, but god was wrong here, so I have decided to correct it in my life.
it is simply a bullshit justification of their sin, and that quite frankly disturbs me more, than the fact that they eat swine.