Posted by fschmidt on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/proposed-changes-tp998p1022.html

Drealm wrote

fschmidt wrote

The religions I visit don't share my concepts

By concepts I mean segregating gender and following the Old Testament. I don't know what you refer to this as.

The religions I visit don't follow the Old Testament.

fschmidt wrote

, but they address identity.

So you've been going to a mosque, do you identify as a Muslim or Arab or middle eastern?

No, I identify as anti-modern culture.

fschmidt wrote

I don't expect Mikraites to adopt the identity of these religions,

You expect Mikraites to parrot the identity of these religions, which is actually worst. This attacks your own identity without replacing it with a better one.

false

fschmidt wrote

but I do expect attending these religions to cause Mikraites to identify less with modern culture.

I disagree. There is no such thing as subtraction without replacement. You are replacing "modern" culture with imitating traditional culture.

False.  The subtraction is replaced with a general sense of identifying with religion generally.

fschmidt wrote

You feel more comfortable going to a Starbucks than to a mosque, and for me it is the reverse. This is because your identity is still more aligned with modern culture than with other cultures.

 
It is not the reverse for you. You don't have an identity to begin with. You don't identify based on language, race, geography. You freely admit that you are not racist. To you everything is the same. This is why you can just as easily hop from Orthodox Jewish to Islam to Mennonites. That is a unique way of thinking. Most people are not that free thinking. Find for me another Orthodox Jew, Muslim or Mennonite who would do the same as you.

They have no reason to.  But Will would do the same if he had the same level of interest in religion as I do.

Just because you can't label my identity doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.  I think I have quite a strong identity.  To me, clearly everything is not the same.  I hate modern culture with a passion.  I have well defined values and seek whatever is most compatible with those values.