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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis
All right, I'm back. Had to go say the Lord's prayer with the family at tuck-in time.
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If you're trying to provoke me you're doing a piss poor job of it. I'm really not sure where you're going. I don't think I can say any clearer where I stand. Given the choice I'd prefer to do a forklift replacement of Judaism for an entirely secular set of traditions and rituals to connect me and my child(ren) to my family. That option being an impossibility, I'm settling for the less preferable, unftunately impefect, but only-avenue-available option of retaining the ritual while puttiing it in context of being a matter of family, fable, and myth with the intended purpose of teaching some moral lessons, and not of divine magical origin.
Because I find the admitted pitfalls of that route preferable and more easily overcome than the pitfalls of the alienated family route. Their support is too important to me.