On 14/09/2010 5:29 AM, Ellen K. wrote:
>
> "Orlando Enrique Fiol" > wrote in message
> . ..
>>
>> I'm sorry that her diabetes is giving her a hard time. But if her body
>> cannot
>> handle the carbs from the requisite sabbath bread, she must find a
>> religious
>> justification not to eat it. It's just that simple.
>>
>
> I've already posted that the bread is NOT a "requisite".
>
> I've also already posted that due to my body's propensity to kidney
> stones, I drink water every Yom Kippur, the strictest fast day of the
> year, and that it's as required for me to drink the water as it is for
> others to abstain. Your repeated implications that my religion would
> require me to endanger my health are 180 degrees from the truth, yet you
> persist despite my having previously answered you that saving a life
> takes precedence over all other requirements.
>
> Finally, as I just posted to Carol, I am perfectly willing to skip the
> bread altogether if I determine I can't properly control my BG
> otherwise. I am currently in the process of EXPERIMENTING to learn
> whether / how I can do this. I will make the decision based on what my
> meter reports.
>
> This is not a comparative religions newsgroup. Accordingly, I am not
> going to engage in discussion about the relative merits of my or any
> other religion. I would appreciate your showing the courtesy of
> desisting from further denigrations of the religion I choose to observe,
> and which my ancestors have been following for the past approximately
> 3300 years.
>

Good for you :-)

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