The Lid: With the setting of the sun, this coming Wednesday (9/20) through Sunday, Jews across the world will begin the observance of the “Yomim Noraim “(Days of Awe), a ten-day period that is book-ended by the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. What most people don’t realize (and what liberal Jews will not accept), The theme of the High Holidays is antithetical to the big government principals of liberalism and progressivism. So are the principals of other religions. One might say that big government is the faith for people who have lost their religion.
The Jewish High Holidays are all about personal responsibility. All the prayers and readings are just tools to help us look inward, formulate a personal accounting of our deeds over the past year, good and bad, and to understand what we have learned or need to learn to correct.
Even the method of atoning for our sins goes against progressive values. Jews are taught that our Maker is not a big massive government that will fix everything for us. For earthly type mistakes, we must first approach the people we harmed to request forgiveness and if necessary, make restitution to them. Then we must discover what led us to behave that way and correct the flaw catalyzing such behavior. Only then can we approach God for absolution.
It’s not that God cannot fix everything but his direct involvement would destroy the delicate balance he set up during creation. MORE
Gee. Same thing happened in Russia, China, Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea. Don’t see a connection though. Nope.
The Jewish Writings are Chalked full of Goodness !
That would make statues on the public square de facto religious icons which much be purged from holy ground. No wonder the acolytes of blessed statism are on a jihad against bronze.
Unfortunately mainstream religions have long abandoned teaching spiritual enlightenment (did they ever?) and no longer actively fight evil. They are going the way of our universities and are fast becoming irrelevant.
The High Holy Days have a lot in common with confession — it’s all about repairing our relationships, with God and each other.
For those who have walked away from faith or never bothered to learn about it: We are wired for faith. Nature cannot abide a vacuum. Therefore, those who do not believe in God come to believe that they are gods, and they will bend the rest of us to their socialist utopian will, damn it.
Like they say, Tired Mom, if you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.
That was great !! Jewish conservatives – all too rare in today’s times, pearls of wisdom among the snowflakes (Jewish liberals).
I lost my faith in Big Government.
Does that mean I should turn to Religion?
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Vietvet, well, it’s an idea.
Politics is the religion of the left. They are obsessed with it. These people have no lives.
What if we’re surrounded by deplorable “people,” whose very existence harms US? How are we gonna’ get OUR restitutions?
Vietvet. Your absolution: Say one Our Chuck, two Hail Nancy’s, and
a Glory Be to Big Brother. And don’t forget the collection box. You’ll be fine for another month or so. Go in peace my brother.
In Communism that is exactly what is demanded. No Churches, your faith is in the government.
Paul Harvey said it best in 1964 with his “If I were the Devil”. Here is an excerpt:
If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say “she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them.
Don’t want to undercut anything this article says as my faith (Christianity) is rooted in the ideals spoken here.
My only point of contention, and I say this not to stir or suggest anyone else is wrong, is on the point of man being able to restore a relationship with God by himself through introspection, reconstruction, and doing good stuff (like charity).
I believe that my(not our) level of personal responsibility requires me to acknowledge that my shortcomings far outweigh any ability to restore my relationship with my creator. God knew this and accomplished the one deed that could do this (sacrifice of his only unique Son) so that all could return to Him in righteousness.
Both Judaism and Christianity are more complicated – but I am happy to discuss faith with anyone, even a Muslim.
Hope I didn’t raise too many hackles from people of faith and fewer cackles from those with none!
I have yet to meet a person who worshiped nothing. Everyone worships something; money, power, government, self, a ruler, sometimes even God.
Amen, Hans. I have enjoyed your comments here.
The problem with mankind is the same problem Satan had; thinking he could be his own god. That’s what he tempted Eve with and what we all suffer from.
If you hang your faith on organized religion, you’re lost anyway.
TIeredMom “We are wired for faith. Nature cannot abide a vacuum. Therefore, those who do not believe in God come to believe that they are gods, and they will bend the rest of us to their socialist utopian will,
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It’s not that they band together it’s that they create a phony god as wyatt said everyone worships something. many worship government (socialists) others earth or nature (radical environmentalists) still others the individual is god (Ayn rand crazy libertarians) the reason they general “band together” is they have a common enemy the one true God.
Oh, so it’s not prayers to Cthulu?
Weez all good now.