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Originally Posted by Ibram
And isn't that exactly what happens with every other religion, in every other place, with every other belief system?
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Tradition has (had) a purpose. Those who ate a Hasidic diet suffered less from disease and food poisoning. Therefore we should always obey that tradition?
Another 'culture' requires ties. Why? Because once we carried our napkin with us. The tie is a perversion of something that once had a purpose.
Many cars once had emblems sticking above the hood. Why? Once those emblems opened the radiator to add water without burning hands. Why did that hood ornament exist for so long? Tradition transcends reason. Meanwhile, those emblems would pierce pedestrians.
Many people don't ask or even refuse to ask the embarrassing question: "Why?" Those who do ask tend to be innovators. Those who are tolerant tend to learn from others who had that obduracy to ask.