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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (1001)	7/28/2017 8:13:50 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 2202

<<Religion is politicized.. That is the trouble.. You just don't drink koolaid :-)) A great Christian existentialist once said, "the Crowd is Untruth". I stay away from organized religion. I haven't been to synagogue since I was 17 years old. And my father forced me to go back then. My home is my synagogue. Wherever I pray is my synagogue. I don't require a rabii to advise me. I have a direct one to one relation with G-d. Care is the call of conscience. It comes not only from me but from over and beyond me. I respect the agnostic. My first (late) wife was a non-believer. She never got over her sister dying at a young age. Deep down, she was a believer. She held G-d responsible for her sister's death, for not saving her. My middle son was an agnostic. He said to me once that G-d never asked him if he wanted to be born and that he believes in freedom of choice. So, I said to him, "if G-d would have asked you if you wanted to be born, what would you have said, would you have said, NO? Maybe, G-d already knew what your answer would be and had no need to ask you"? For years, I wore a Yamaka during the day. People use to look at me strange, especially when I went to Tony Romas or Texas BBQ, a rib place in NY. (When I was younger before I became health conscious, I ate Pork). What I want to know is what does one thing have to do with another? I wore a Yamaka because I felt absolute devotion to G-d at every moment, as I prayed often (silently) . Even today, I do the Sabbath service at home on Friday night and then afterward go out and have a good time. I don't function as a vegetable on the Sabbath. I live, I work, I dance and have fun, and go to comedy clubs on the Sabbath. Would I have married a Christian? Yeah, why not? I probably would have put her on the Cross and gotten her to admit that maybe G-d never had a Son. But after that, I'd back off and support her faith.