Wow, for a 2014 post that was a fast reply. Slow Friday night? Mine isn't looking up so far.
"the whole -- as Jews who people can convert if they want to -- it's just a lot less about preaching, you find solice within yourself by educating yourself with as much knowledge as possible convened make an informed opinion on how you feel about religion or specifically within the confines of the Jewish religion."
WTF does that have to do with the movie? Conversion in either direction was never even hinted at. Not in the movie, nor in real life (the loser this is based on).
"unfortunately and a lot of my relatives were killed in the concentration camps specifically Dachau during World War 2"
Really? Well I lost several too, but to the other side (the Soviet invasion of Lithuania). So you're in good company.
"the film did a very good job of showing what some parts of Judaism can really be confusing to everyone at first."
Really?
Well I'm a Catholic (not the Mel Gibson kind), and the movie's display of Jewish thought and doubt seemed (what's the right word) puerile, superficial and stereotypical at best.
Like a fundie evangelical's idea of what ideas/concepts Jews may struggle with (as if Jewish thought and Judaism itself had frozen in time since Jesus and hadn't kept growing and developing for another 2,000 years).
Can you honestly say that of all the recent/modern/relevant themes (like say the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel, secularism, etc) a Jew may struggle with, the binding of Issac and Abraham's alleged state of mind (from a time where child sacrifice was common for starters) are at the top?
If you read your Bible/Torah/Quran long enough, eventually you'll:
- see whatever you want to see
- ask yourself how many angels can dance at the head of a pin
- find yourself wondering WTF are you even thinking about
- Start having vision of Jesus or the virgin Mary in a grill chesse sandwich or your toilet.
I'll state it again: religion is supposed to improve your life, not control it (unless you're a ruler, then you do want religion to control your subjects so you can then control them better). If you're losing sleep over religious topics, you have too much time on your hands and not enough real problems.
A buddy of mine switched to some cult just to get his hands on all the juicy female followers (it's a swingers cult if you get my drift), while he always shows up with a different 2 dollar whore pretending she's his current girl (he can't come empty-handed). He tells me he's cleaning up and I should consider it (he sure knows how to make religion work FOR him...)
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