What do loons get out of their looniness?

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What's in it for him?
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Okay, by now, with the Easter season come and gone, most of you have heard the riff about the definition of Christianity:

A cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father will let you live forever if you pretend to eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that he put there a long time ago as punishment for all humanity because a rib-woman made from a dust-man was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree.

As deliberately offensive as this accurate assesment may be worded, I have to wonder what believers like this guy get out of their lonely, abuse-filled ritual on public streetcorners. I mean, he just stands there once in a while, holding up this sign and waving at passersby. I mean, does he really think he's going to get anyone who's not already on board with his tribal message to sign up right there and then? I mean, come on: one out of every five self-identified Christian college-age kids thinks Sodom and Gomorrah were a married couple in the Bible. What's the point?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's certainly how orthodox Judaism works. The kosher law (kashrut laws, technically) make sure that the followers of this practice cannot eat with non-followers - it is entirely prohibited. Add to that the three daily prayer times (which really get in the way of, well, anything you might be doing) and the "modesty" rules governing clothing, and you get a wall that separates the orthodox Jews from the rest of humanity visually, externally, and emotionally-internally.

It's saddest when someone who used to live a regular lifestyle gets sucked in by the comfort of this regimented lifestyle. My father went that route, while I was a young girl, dragging my mother and their (four) children with them. Not one of the children maintained that insane lifestyle, though. Only the zealous convert remained in it.

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