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Posted by orange blossom special on Sun Jun 25 13:44:34 2017, in response to Re: List of Nones, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 24 07:30:54 2017. Before you said you were spiritual. You cannot really be religious without being spiritual.I used to be so called "spiritual", maybe. The line that I was Jewish but didn't know anything got on my nerves. Then I came to the conclusion that there are 3000 years worth of books. An unknowable amount of books. They say one who doesn't know is an ignoramus. Between the resources of the internet, the unbelievable volumes of books around, and classes, there really is no excuse at all not to know anything. The real problem is, where does one start? It's hard to find something appealing. I found some volumes of "sermons", called commentaries. In the 50's-70's this one Rabbi has a commentary that's about the stuff of the day, and he relates it back to the biblical stories. (About the NYSlimes, The Pope, the UN, the usual, but 40 years ago). They're entertaining, and dare I say educational, in a way that is "light" on Bible content. Because, in my opinion, it's not easy to just get into reading it, the way they portray Christians on television pretending to read random pages of the Bible as though it's a novel. Alternatively, This gets detailed, and I wonder if it's considered dry. Then there's really specific books, laws of this, commentary of that, headlines of the day, whatever. The trouble is finding something to read. One sect is annoying, crying over Trump and ignoring religion altogether. The other side is too matter of fact imo, and some of it gets dry. I personally like the Jewish Mystics, though everyone else hates them. But then I'm "spiritual" I guess. The best, however, is the random JLI classes at any Chabad. It's always a useful subject for everyday living, or history, but they infuse biblical stories. The nice thing is they'll never corner you into coming more frequently, you can come and go. But then again, I don't live anywhere where they haev "mitzvah tanks", so I've never experienced large groups of them. The ones in the middle of nowhere places I live have claimed that they really love meeting people from all stripes. In other words, it would be more authoritative to reject something you know more about, than to do so blindly. |
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