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+# On converts and the evangelical bubble
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+'''
+Beriah — Yesterday at 8:20 AM
+Unfortunately, people crap on converts a lot. They are wrong to do so and not supported by written law, tradition or Halacha.
+
+exquisite wizard samwise gamzee — Yesterday at 10:39 AM
+I remember reading somewhere on tumblr something like "in fact, we don't really WANT you to join" about judaism and converts
+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
+
+Beriah — Yesterday at 10:42 AM
+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.
+Related to what I wrote earlier, one might say that Jews welcome converts whose souls will not permit them any other path.
+
+Madison — Yesterday at 10:57 AM
+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.
+
+Beriah — Yesterday at 11:01 AM
+I mean a lot of groups seek the Cultural Victory in Civilization, and it’s far from only religious groups
+It’s easy to believe that your way is the best way and that getting everyone else to follow your way will prove it.
+
+Madison — Yesterday at 11:07 AM
+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.
+
+Friend of the Show Ben Rowe — Yesterday at 3:01 PM
+The way the world looks from inside the evangelical bubble and the way it looks outside it are just... Wildly different places.
+
+Madison — Yesterday at 3:04 PM
+Yeah, I'm incredibly thankful for places like this to keep me from just continuing on in there, oblivious :P
+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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 ### February
 
+- [On converts and the evangelical bubble](2022-02-06)
 - [2022-02-04](2022-02-04)
 
 ### January

writing/poetry/haiku.md

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 The blackbird's dry call
 Echoes the rattle of dry leaves.
 Autumn tells me lies.
+
+Blackbird against snow
+proves waking 
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