Posted by Lou Pilder on October 24, 2002, at 12:15:36
In reply to I bow rather gracelessly out...., posted by Dinah on October 24, 2002, at 11:24:07
Dinah,
You wrote that the nature of a faith is that if you beleive in one thing that you do not believe in an other things.
I hope you might consider, then, that I am not being disrespectfull to others because I am a jew and do not "beleve in another thing".
I am not going to accept that accusation to me that I am being disrespectfull to others for writing that I had an experiance and was told by the Rider, who is the Word of God in my experiance, that I should (shall) have no other Gods before my God when a faith board is constructed to allow the participants to tell of their faith. In Christianity, their Word of God, the bible, tells them that Christians (must) (shall) (should) believe in Christ, which is the foundation of Christiandom to be a christian. Christians are not being restrained from posting their foundational belief here, and they are not saying that others must beleve their Word of God and I am not saying that others must beleive my Word of God. But I am being restraind from telliing of the foundation of Judaism here.
Sorry, but this could be construed by reasonable people that Christianity can be posted unrestrained, and Jewdaism will be restrained in relation to telling of Jewdaisms foundational belief of haveing one God and that Jews shall (should) not have any other Gods before Him.
I am in absolutly no way saying that anyone here (must) (shall) (should) be a Jew like me anymore than you or anyone else here is saying that I have to be a Christian because... God sent his only Son for us...and other quotes by Christians on this board such as ....the father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost... etc. etc. and because I am a jew, that does not mean that I disrespect Christians or athiests, or Hindus, or Islamic peoples or anybody else. If a athiest wanted to tell of their foundationl belefes to be an athiest here, that would be welcomed by me. If the Christian people here want to tell of Christ, that would be welcomed by me. If an Islamic person wanted to tell of their faith about Mulhammad, that would be welcomed by me. I accept others faiths and I am asking others not to tell me that I am being disrespectfull because I am jewish and theafror of another faoththan them. Mt faith does not disrespect others anymore than Christians faith disrespects mine. (and it doesn't)
The foundational beliefs of freedom of religion of England, Cananda and The United states of America say what you saud, Dinah, that if you have a faith, then that means you have your faith and not another. And these countrys and others that have freedom of religion state that we are to accept that people of one faith are not being disrespectfull to others because if the line of reasoning that any faith tharfore is disrespectfull to others was accepted, then there wouild only be one faith for a country, or no faith. There are countrys that do not accept individual faiths and countrys in the past . Spain in 1492 expelled all jews from Spainish lands by the edict of Queen Isabella and I posted Queen Isabella's edict prevoiusly to expose the horror of it. I read that in some countrys that believing in a religion other than their states religion is punishable by death. I do not live in that country, I live in the United States of America where people have a right to be a jew, or a christian, or an Islamic person or an athiest or anything elsa without someone putting an onus on me that because I am a jew I am disrespectfull to others. I do not want that to happen anywhare where I live, even here, and I will not accept anyone telling me as a citizen of the United States of America that my Jewish beliefs disrespect anyone.
Lou
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