I think the real moral of the story is that I need to find an online resource with detailed information about the deeper meanings of Jewish holidays that isn't written by folks who are hardcore realists about chosenness. The deeper question, though, is, "How far should the Jewish people be willing to go to protect our distinctiveness?" And I don't know the answer to that one.
But I take heart — and you should, too — in the fact that, in all of the nightmare scenarios of religious oppression that I can readily imagine, Jews, science-fiction fans, and tree-hugging neo-pagans will all side with the resistance, so I won't be forced to choose.
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Date: 2005-12-19 03:49 am (UTC)I think the real moral of the story is that I need to find an online resource with detailed information about the deeper meanings of Jewish holidays that isn't written by folks who are hardcore realists about chosenness. The deeper question, though, is, "How far should the Jewish people be willing to go to protect our distinctiveness?" And I don't know the answer to that one.
But I take heart — and you should, too — in the fact that, in all of the nightmare scenarios of religious oppression that I can readily imagine, Jews, science-fiction fans, and tree-hugging neo-pagans will all side with the resistance, so I won't be forced to choose.