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From: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Ann Landers on Judaism
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 18:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 18:20:27 1984
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Hmm, yes, well.  At the risk of joining a ludicrous melee, I post
this follow-up (also at the risk of "preaching to the choir" [sic]).

It is amazing how intolerant many people are regarding religion. 
The US's early history is full of the "we're being presecuted, so
let's go find religious freedom in the New World" followed by the
settlement's policy of "you are FREE to practice OUR form of
religion in the colony."

The example cited is another instance of this.  Practice your
religion, they say, but do it MY way.  Practice your religion,
they say, but do it in a way that doesn't inconvenience me or impact
on me at all.  Be Jewish, please, and "propogate" the culture,
the religion, but don't be obvious about it.  And, above all,


		 Thou shalt not be more frumm
		than thy father and they mother.


Won't it be exciting when Jews accept one another, when people
accept one another.  On THAT day...


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Alan M. Marcum		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
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