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# On converts and the evangelical bubble
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Beriah — Yesterday at 8:20 AM
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Unfortunately, people crap on converts a lot. They are wrong to do so and not supported by written law, tradition or Halacha.
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exquisite wizard samwise gamzee — Yesterday at 10:39 AM
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I remember reading somewhere on tumblr something like "in fact, we don't really WANT you to join" about judaism and converts
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and it was a post about how a person could convert but it came with like some kinda heavy disclaimer at the top about how converting is not like christianity's kinda all-odds-welcome approach to it
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Beriah — Yesterday at 10:42 AM
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So as a general policy Jews don’t seek converts. God doesn’t ask for everyone to be Jewish and being Jewish is considered a set of obligations rather than a reward to be desired.
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Related to what I wrote earlier, one might say that Jews welcome converts whose souls will not permit them any other path.
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Madison — Yesterday at 10:57 AM
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Dang. Makes me realize I've spent most of my life surrounded by a lot of evangelical culture, since I think even a lot of folks around me who weren't evangelical thought that this was just How All Religions Are™ which fits in neatly with the contemporary evangelical narrative.
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Beriah — Yesterday at 11:01 AM
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I mean a lot of groups seek the Cultural Victory in Civilization, and it’s far from only religious groups
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It’s easy to believe that your way is the best way and that getting everyone else to follow your way will prove it.
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Madison — Yesterday at 11:07 AM
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Right, that makes sense. I guess some of that surprise I'm feeling is because, having been raised angrily atheist, I was taught any other cultural power struggle was not worth thinking about, it was only the religions that were bad about it, and it was all of them.
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Friend of the Show Ben Rowe — Yesterday at 3:01 PM
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The way the world looks from inside the evangelical bubble and the way it looks outside it are just... Wildly different places.
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Madison — Yesterday at 3:04 PM
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Yeah, I'm incredibly thankful for places like this to keep me from just continuing on in there, oblivious :P
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I'm continually reminded that that's cultural as well as religious. Been watching an atheist youtuber (carefully, mind, though he seems pretty alright so far) who has been talking a lot about how deconstruction goes beyond just the religious aspects.
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