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Julie Bove > wrote:
>By the same token, nowhere is it demonstrated that the quality of life in
>this world is diminished if you don't take communion. Or eat fish on
>Fridays. Or on Christmas Eve. Or don't eat beef. Or... Or... See what I
>mean?


Most religions intentionally blur the lines between God's laws and Man's laws,
to the point where the hapless practitioner can't tell the difference. Some guy
figures out that if he wants to stay king and ensure that right for his
successive generations, the best way to do it is to say that God gave him the
right to rule. Some rabbi comes up with the idea that the more minutia he and
his fellow clergy prescribe to orthodox Jews, the more future generations will
depend on rabbinical wisdom for everything. Some priest comes up with a link
between Jesus' crucifixion and fish on Fridays, proclaims it as God's law and
ensures that ignorant Catholics will respect that Man-made tradition for
centuries. I hope you see a pattern here. Religious clergy don't want people
thinking for themselves; that's why the Bible and Mass were kept in
incomprehensible Latin until Vatican II, and orthodox Jews rarely read the
Torah outside of schul or in translation. The idea is for worshipers not to
think for themselves via direct access to God's word. Access is mediated by
language, special scrolls, special churches or synagogue settings. Then, the
Word is mediated by exegetical or hermeneutic interpretation, which means
worshipers aren't supposed to make whatever they will from direct access to
God's word; they're supposed to depend on rabbis, theologians, priests,
bishops, popes and even saints to interpret scripture. All this is of course
nonsense. God has always made His word directly accessible. When the Jewish
people spoke and wrote Hebrew, He gave them Torah in their own language. But
when Hebrew ceased being the lingua franca for Jews, they needed rabbis
specially trained in Hebrew to read scripture. The same held true for Catholics
and Latin scripture until Martin Luther translated the Bible into German. The
clergy have purposely withheld scriptures from the masses for centuries because
direct access to scriptures would diminish their choke hold over worshipers. If
people could read the word autonomously, they might just get the notion that
all these laws are ridiculous, which we can't have. That's why we have a
situation today where people like Ellen are worried about not being able to say
meaningful sabbath prayers without first consuming bread. She's only worried
about this because her rabbis have told her what they take to be God's final
pronouncement on this matter. Of course, there are plenty of Jews who find
themselves miraculously able to worship meaningfully without eating bread
before sabbath prayers. Either those conservative and reform Jews have got it
all wrong or just maybe, it is in fact the orthodox Jews whose endless tomes of
laws keep them imprisoned in anachronistic bubbles and ultimately separate from
God.

Orlando