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Originally Posted by kn
Wow... how tolerant of you. I hope you have the same contempt for conservative Jews and Muslims, you know, just to be fair and equal.
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I am born to a practicing Jewish mother, and a god fearing Catholic father. By Religious standards, I am a Jew. By my standards I am an atheist. I accept my parents beliefs, my father and mother for 47 years have accepted each others faiths, and neither of them have ever held it against me for one second I chose the path of Atheism, which due to recent events, has made me even question that, and believe I may actually be more agnostic.
I can accept peoples beliefs. I can sit through a Seder and have memorized the entire Hebrew prayer service phonetically to appease my mother and be a good son. I actually own quite a cool selection of NHL and NFL Yarmulkes to sport at Jewish services and funerals, and to be honest, I love putting one on when I get the chance.
However, I was raised in a home, where whether you believed it or not, you didn't persecute someone for their beliefs, nor did you tell people they would "Burn in hell" for a genetic pre-disposition to liking those of the same sex. I was born into probably the most diverse, accepting scenario that could ever be imagined. I had a Star of David capping my Christmas tree, and a Menora and Matza Ball soup at the turkey dinner table. I am pretty sure we coined the phrase Christmakkah sometime in the early 80's. My folks are wonderful accepting people who put aside the religious crap, and have loved each other in manogamy for 47 years not because a book told them to, but because their hearts did, at the expense of my father being disowned for nearly a decade, by his folks, for marrying a "dirty jew."
So don't tell me, I am intolerant. I am the definition of tolerance.