So my inlaws are here.
They are able to watch my lovely Lotus so D and I went to the city and won the raffle for The Book of Mormon.
I loved it. It was funny and fun. I'm humming the tunes and enjoying.
And thinking.
I'm Jewish.
We don't tend to evangelize. (Here's some views on why.) We don't go out and say that if you don't become Jewish you will burn in hell-o. Heck Jews don't believe in hell.
I've never understood why people do evangelize. Why do you care how someone else worships? Even if you think that yours is the one and only way to salvation, there are better ways than saying if you don't worship my way you're going to hell.
You can show your faith by example. (Something our Congress is not doing--as per my last post.) Become a good person and do good works for your friends. Comfort them when they are sick. Watch their children (and don't evangelize to them either!) when they can't. When they ask what makes you so treasured, you can explain how your faith helps you.
I've been told that the seders I make have made the non-Jewish friends I invite consider Judaism. I know several Jews-by-choice who have had relationships with Jewish men/women. The relationship soured but they liked the holidays and the outlook so they stayed.
Religion is one of the most personal choices. It is between a person and their deity. That's it, no matter what organized religion wants to tell us.
That being said--I highly recommend The Book of Mormon.
I'm with you on this one; it is such a personal decision. I have never understood the idea of telling someone else what they should believe. Or even suggesting it. But, like you, I grew up in Judaism where we make it so hard to convert that few people do.
ReplyDeleteI loved the Book of Mormon! So funny. I also think that people can show by example but there is no need to try to convert anyone else to their religion. Each to their own.
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