Religion is totalitarian. It wants to take over all of your life, even how you make love to your wife.<\/p>\n
Yeah, the rabbis say you should carry the consciousness of G-d into the bedroom and when that special time comes, you should be all grateful to HaShem.<\/p>\n
Man, when I heard this, it put me right off sex.<\/p>\n
My father the preacher man had a lot of alliterative sayings on this score to the effect that if G-d counts for something, He counts for everything.<\/p>\n
I don’t want to be totalitarian. I don’t want to be like Hitler. I want to keep G-d in His place.<\/p>\n
Everything has its place. Even G-d.<\/p>\n
I go to shul to think about G-d. I go to Holly’s place to think about other things.<\/p>\n
I see G-d as the concentrated fruit juice that you add to the smoothie of life. Too much and you lose the flavor of the fruit. Too little and life is bland.<\/p>\n
Why can’t everyone be nice and moderate like me?<\/p>\n
I oppose the Talibanization of Orthodox Judaism.<\/p>\n
When I put it like that, don’t you agree with me?<\/p>\n
If you don’t, you’re worse than Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n
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