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I have an intellectual perogative because I have an intellect.

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Submitted by Issac (United States), Jan 4, 2007 at 19:11

Let's get one thing straight, you're Yaakov and I'm Issac, so you listen to me, son.

If you really believe that God is going to cause you to suffer because of the avayrot of others, then that amounts to a psychological disorder. A just God would not do that. Further, morality governs a person's relationship with other people. Morality does not cover a man's relationship with God because you can't hurt God and someone who thinks he can is also mentally deranged.

And you miss the point about the religious totalitarianism thing- there is little point in Israel fighting totalitarians from other religions that want to shove an overly-puritian society and their miscellaneous rules down everyone's throat if upon victory we are going to get to have to deal with religious totalitarians of our own that want to shove our own religion down our own throats even though there's people that may not want it to be that way.

If anything your argument is also reminicent of that of the communists but with a religious twist. Communists sometimes argue that the regular middle class individual doesn't know that capitalism is an oppressive economic system and thus needs the communists to teach it to him, out of love of course, and you're saying that if a person flips a lightswitch on Shabbat, it is going to cause a piano to fall on people from a ten story building and thus the lightflipper must be stopped!!!, out of love of course because the guy who flips the lightswitch does not know that he is going to cause the sky to fall down and maybe also thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods etc. It sounds a little off, doesn't it?

It is also nice that we are able to disagree. Such disagreement would not be possible if we lived in the theocracy that you seem to be advocating.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
1Parasitic behaviour [34 words]Susya Bar DrorJul 15, 2011 05:24187417
Suggestion for El Al [42 words]Omar KajFeb 12, 2007 12:5176914
What is in islam which produces fanatics? [146 words]kalyanFeb 2, 2007 04:5975572
This is supposed to be 2007, not 1007, not 7, not 7 BC, etc. [588 words]IssacJan 16, 2007 22:5573221
Surrender [142 words]Ynna (tchkah)Jan 5, 2007 14:3071750
More Irritation [157 words]FriedmanJan 1, 2007 11:3071318
Unnecessary language [35 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 1, 2007 19:5271318
El Al GOY [2 words]steven LDec 26, 2006 12:2870611
...Professor [117 words]C FletcherDec 26, 2006 01:4970553
To C Fletcher [26 words]Ynna (Tchkah)Dec 28, 2006 22:4070553
why it would be wrong for El Al to fly on shabbes [112 words]Yaakov WatkinsDec 25, 2006 20:2670531
Don't listen to fundamentalists!!!! [498 words]IssacDec 30, 2006 20:0970531
Religious perspective [218 words]Yaakov WatkinsDec 30, 2006 21:3570531
How one practices the religion ... is a personal choice. [675 words]IssacDec 31, 2006 19:0170531
Religious perspective [526 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 1, 2007 18:1070531
Practicing the Religion [391 words]IssacJan 2, 2007 15:0570531
Please clarify. [416 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 2, 2007 16:4270531
Wrong for El Al [32 words]Charles R.L. PowerJan 4, 2007 16:0870531
I have an intellectual perogative because I have an intellect. [312 words]IssacJan 4, 2007 19:1170531
By the way [42 words]IssacJan 5, 2007 11:5970531
You've missed a couple of points [150 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 6, 2007 23:4470531
One more point [135 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 7, 2007 00:4170531
Do you want to know what is christianesque? [311 words]IssacJan 9, 2007 20:4070531
Whew. [326 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 10, 2007 19:0670531
God may have a special covenant with the Jewish people but .... [281 words]IssacJan 11, 2007 20:2670531
One more try. [206 words]Yaakov WatkinsJan 13, 2007 22:3070531
El Al [15 words]Yaakov WatkinsDec 25, 2006 20:1870530
Shabbos Goy [25 words]Melvin LavinDec 25, 2006 19:3070527
Non Sense [383 words]Ynna (Tchkah)Dec 19, 2006 21:4870049

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