What could be worse than to be a Holocaust victim and then go to Hell?
Hm, what's the Jewish opinion of baptism, will a post-mortem baptism un-Jew someone? If that were the case, what's worse than being a Holocaust victim and then going to Hell would be being a Holocaust victim, going to Heaven, and then being yanked out of it through a vicarious baptism!
Honestly I find the whole concept of being super-"respectful" of others' beliefs implies a serious disrespect for one's own beliefs.
Unfortunately that argument also applies to fundamentalists of all religions. It would be disrespectful of Islamic belief for Muslims to *not* call for the death of people who make cartoons of Mohammed, or for the death of a man who converts away from Islam.
Where do we draw the line between appropriate tolerance of others' beliefs and adherence to one's own beliefs? I suspect civil discourse such as we are having is the closest we can come. Of course, that's just my belief... :-P
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Date: 2006-03-31 07:42 pm (UTC)Hm, what's the Jewish opinion of baptism, will a post-mortem baptism un-Jew someone? If that were the case, what's worse than being a Holocaust victim and then going to Hell would be being a Holocaust victim, going to Heaven, and then being yanked out of it through a vicarious baptism!
Honestly I find the whole concept of being super-"respectful" of others' beliefs implies a serious disrespect for one's own beliefs.
Unfortunately that argument also applies to fundamentalists of all religions. It would be disrespectful of Islamic belief for Muslims to *not* call for the death of people who make cartoons of Mohammed, or for the death of a man who converts away from Islam.
Where do we draw the line between appropriate tolerance of others' beliefs and adherence to one's own beliefs? I suspect civil discourse such as we are having is the closest we can come. Of course, that's just my belief... :-P