Occasionally, I enjoy partaking 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
Chabad and their 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 and many other people (for example: Taliban in Afghanistan) continue to hold onto this primitive belief of "loyalty to the in-group."
You can't have loyalty of the in-group without the exclusion of others. The Jews are an admitted tribe, something that as an evolved human, I would NOT be proud of.
If ever there will be peace in the world it is certainly NOT when Judaism becomes the 'light of the world.' -- It is 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 is foreign to you - The possibility 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.
Monday, June 8, 2009
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