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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you don’t want to be Jewish and you don’t want your children to be Jewish and you give zero effs about what your grandparents or their parents went through for your right to have the [b]choice[/b] to eff over thousands of years of tradition because you want to take pictures of your food, practice yoga with goats, cure your own candid bacon, and fancy yourself a millennial BuJu. When your children become born again, remember your zero effs given. [/quote]

Isn't CHOICE the key?  It's like people who celebrate the freedoms that the military has afforded us, yet get pissed when people exercise that freedom in a way don't like.[/quote]

Having the choice and freedom to do something disrespectful doesn't mean people can't tell you you're being disrespectful.  Choices don't come with zero consequences even if you're allowed to make them.  I hate lame arguments like that.  [/quote]

Disrespectful?  To whom?  A long lost relative from the shtetl?  It isn't disrespectful just because someone makes a choice you disagree with.  It is disrespectful of you to think your views should predominate over other's beliefs.[/quote]

It's disrespectful to tell people- like you're doing today- that their (clearly) religious holiday is not really a religious holiday, and that holiday's symbols are secular and not important.  It shows a basic lack of awareness, and it's rude.  You're right that someone making a choice i wouldn't make myself isn't, at its core, disrespectful.  But when you denigrate my religion and tell me that my religious holidays aren't religious because you , personally, don't think they should be- that is disrespectful.  Again- you have the freedom to believe what you want, and put up a "holiday tree"  and burn candles in the image of buddha and wear a dot on your forehead and dance around to Indian music on Diwali all while not caring in the slightest about the meaning of those holidays, symbols, etc.   I don't think my opinion is more important than yours at all.  But just know that you come across as disrespectful to many people.  [/quote]

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