By porkeater - 16/07/2009 15:02 - United States

Today, we went up for visitor's day for my son's Jewish summer camp. We don't keep kosher, but most of his fellow campers do. When we went around in the circle saying our favorite foods, he said, "My mom makes the best pork chops." We got dirty looks for the rest of the day. FML
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chumponimys 0

Does anyone even know what kosher is?! I am a conservative jew, and the jews started kosher to keep healthy. Because before we had refrigerators, if you ate meat and dairy in the same meal, you would most likely get sick. if you ate pork which is considered a dirty animal, you would also usually get sick. Kosher also prevented you from drinking from certain wells, and other safety hazards. Today, the only reason that jews keep kosher is to keep the tradition. Just because the family is breaking the laws of kosher, it does not mean that they are not jewish, it only means that they are not orthodox.

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_DANTE_ 0

Yeah, by that logic, Christians should keep Kosher too... Their Bible might be an extended version, but it's still starts off as the SAME book. Everybody picks and chooses which laws they want to follow and which laws don't fit with contemporary lifestyle... and YES, the pork and shellfish ban is because of health reasons back in those times. You weren't supposed to eat shrimp because they're bottomfeeders or pigs because they walk around in thier own filth... Nowadays, though, we have technology to cook and disinfect the meat we eat, so there is no real reason to follow Kosher law. Conservative Jews only do to be "traditional". - A Reform Jew who loves bacon cheeseburgers

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intrepid00 0

I refuse to believe my diet will come into question in the afterlife.

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Arcterion 0

Anyone gullible to believe in an invisible man in the sky that created everything is most-likely gullible enough to think otherwise. :P

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AngryWookie 0

Anyone gullible enough to think everything that exists "just happened", in direct contradiction to every established and verifiable scientific principle, is gullible enough to believe just about anything.

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dramakat11 0

I respect a reverence for the mystery of life and existence and the acknowledgment that no one truly knows for sure if something such as a soul or an afterlife could exist...But organized religion is absolute bullshit in my opinion. Anyone who doesn't follow his own conscience and instead relies on a book to tell him or her what's right and wrong is weak-minded. I don't doubt that for certain people there may be insight to be gained from religious texts but simply being a slave to whatever God supposedly commands you to do without having your own moral compass is just plain immoral in my opinion. What a travesty.

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EasilyUnamused 2

AngryWookie....I think I love you. And DramaKat11, followers of organized religion for the most part aren't like that. I'm not Jewish, I'm Mormon, but it too is organized religion. I can tell you that we don't rely on our books to tell us *everything*. We rely more on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. It's not like the Book of Mormon is attatched to us. We refer to the Book of Mormon and the Bible for guidance and comfort more than anything. I'm sure it is very similar for those of Jewish religion and their texts.

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dramakat11 0

Good to know. And you're free to believe what you want but I'm just curious: what gives you faith in your religion? Do you truly believe? Do you pick and choose which things to believe? How can you truly believe in God if you follow this religion and yet don't believe every word of it? You say yourself you mostly turn to it for guidance and comfort, do you think maybe you just believe because you WANT to believe that your life has some kind of purpose and meaning and to ease your fear and hopelessness at the possibility that when you die you may truly just be gone?

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christopherlove 0

As an atheist, I've never met anybody who believes everything "just happened."

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wrw28405 0

#46, DramaKat11, I have to agree with you.

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Arcterion 0

FYL. People should stop being such ******* retards and letting religion dictate their life. If you like pork, just eat it. More power to you, mang.

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deweyd8855 3

True that. My family is Jewish but we refuse to keep Kosher because the practice is completely outdated. Not mixing meat and cheese and avoiding pork and shellfish were necessary in Biblical times for the sake of food preservation. I believe technology has slightly advanced (sarcasm) since then, so there's really no need to do that. I love cheeseburgers and pork and will continue to eat them. Do what you want and don't listen to people like those mentioned in this FML; Jews can be so judgmental sometimes.

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ozymandias_fml 0

FYL for taking your kid to fairy-tale camp.

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dramakat11 0

haha!!! Props 44! That's exactly what it is. LMAO

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Pastor_Rich 0

pork.... the other white meat lol

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vanessa_nessa_08 0

lucyyyyyyy in the sky with diamonds

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AntiChrist7 0

so you don't do jewish when eating, but you send your kid to a jewish camp? Or you are retarded, or very hypocrit

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babazad3h 0

What does OP stand for???

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MK1029 0

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+does+OP+mean%3F Don't be such a dumbass. If you couldn't figure it out, you REALLY could have searched for it. You don't deserve to live.

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plexico 3

What a stupid insensitive thing to say! It would be like going to an AA meeting and singing "99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall."

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