Chabad-niks defend tribalism

Occasionally, I enjoy a walk on the wild side -- I get involved in a dialog over at Chabad.org. These people are fundamentalist Orthodox Jews.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/39606/showfeedback/true/jewish/Why-Do-Jews-Exclude-Other-People.htm

In a current thread, Chabad and its followers are defending their racist practice of advocating marriage only within their tribe.

This was one of my comments in regard to Jewish exclusionism and tribalism (which never made it through their moderators):

Daniel asks the forum, "What is tribalism? Isn't that what the native Americans have? Are you saying the native Americans are wrong?"

Yes. Tribalism is wrong. That is the point.

Look at the definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tribalism

1: tribal consciousness and loyalty; especially: exaltation of the tribe above other groups
2: strong in-group loyalty

Jews are by no means alone -- practically every ethnic group continues to hold onto this primitive belief of unquestioned loyalty to the in-group. You can't have loyalty of the in-group without the exclusion of others.

Most Jews are a self-admitted tribe, something that as an evolved human, I would NOT be proud of.

If ever there will be peace in the world, it will certainly NOT be when Judaism becomes the "light of the world," as many Orthodox and other Jews contend. This is the height of self-centered arrogance. We'll be a lot closer to peace when the cult(ure) of TRIBALISM is extinguished from society.

Beverly says, "I wonder if anyone here has bothered to find out what Judaism is. It's in the Torah."

Yes. And I reject it, this primitive compilation of myth, genealogy, and endless rules and regs. But to Beverly and others, it's inconceivable that there are people who have been raised Jewish, who have been taught precisely WHAT Judaism is -- yet they find it to be nothing worthy of praise. You need to grasp that.

If I told you, Beverly, that if you really bothered to find out all the beauty in the Koran, you would be a Muslim. And it is only because you haven't read the entire Koran and listened to all the Imams interpret it, that you are not a Muslim. Would that work for you, Beverly?

I look at Judaism and see probably the same thing that you see in Islam. I see a primitive, violent, conquering people egged on by their egotistical, genocidal, and petty god which they have created in their own image.