tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post1577006319944055878..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: I Have Failed, Part ThreeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-12943028605905250512012-05-03T20:03:31.424-07:002012-05-03T20:03:31.424-07:00Rabbi, if only the books had spoke only of love, a...Rabbi, if only the books had spoke only of love, acceptance, peace, lovingkindness, forgiveness, reconciliation and good. What would religion look like if that were so? Perhaps it's time for another Thomas Jefferson to come along and edit out the war, hate, bigotry, jealousy, murder, condemnation, separation and judgement written in these books. I think you'd be the fella to do it.Lyn Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06636394980892878583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-16953319093168919392012-05-01T22:12:34.651-07:002012-05-01T22:12:34.651-07:00You asked for great women. How about Mother Teres...You asked for great women. How about Mother Teresa and Hildegarde von Bingen. <br /><br />What I want and what I usually get from my faith is joy, peace, forgiveness, love and community. Personally it wouldn't matter whether I am attending a Christian service or a 60s love-in. My faith is about allowing God (however one describes him/her) to be alive through me.Tricia Datenéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09654973315292331306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-79862294659262935162012-05-01T19:18:38.336-07:002012-05-01T19:18:38.336-07:00I can so identify with this series of posts it'...I can so identify with this series of posts it's hard to know where to begin. You have to understand that about four months ago I found a very active Judaism discussion board where I am now wasting hours every day, getting into endless flame wars and generally indulging in masochistic tendencies I never even knew I had. I am not going to name this forum or link to it, so as not to provide ammunition to any lurking anti-Semites.<br /><br />The Orthodox or self-proclaimed "traditionist" Jews who dominate this forum are not very kind to Reform/Renewal Jewish syncretists...to say the least. They might go a little easier on you because you can put the title of rabbi in front of your name, although some of the nastier ones might put it in quotation marks when addressing you. I wouldn't put it past 'em. But at least they couldn't call you "ignoramus" every hour or so like they do with me, along with "idolater" and "heretic," and even "Jewish antisemite." That last one is because of my political position regarding the occupied territories.<br /><br />You would think that a people who have so often been on the receiving end of the collective shadow projection of Christianity could be a little more willing to admit the shadow side of their own religion. But I'm apparently a "Jewish antisemite" simply because I dare to mention the fact that Judaism HAS a shadow side--and I often use the Jungian term the way you do. I am not saying it's any blacker and uglier than the shadow of any other religion, but simply that it's THERE, that it exists--and that it's no less destructive either. <br /><br />And of course there are the inevitable shadow projections, even more toxic than I've known them to be in the past, on other Jewish discussion boards. Just as inevitably, I find myself on the receiving end of them along with a couple of other "designated heretics." It can get pretty discouraging, and I can't imagine what I hope to accomplish there or why I keep coming back.Rakshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280365011937595321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-23249269170084261342012-05-01T17:23:12.613-07:002012-05-01T17:23:12.613-07:00Amen dear Rabbi Rami..... amen.Amen dear Rabbi Rami..... amen.No One Specialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08096524177557365692noreply@blogger.com