30 Apr '15 00:13>
Originally posted by hakimaNicely put. In terms of my own studies in my Jewish heritage:
Sadly, for the same reason Baltimore is, I surmise....
For me, I stopped sorting out the correctness of a religion based on interpretations of institutions or others' actions based on their interpretations a very long time ago...in fact, it is likely for me that the founder of the religion (the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith) of which I was raised into is mos ...[text shortened]... e Goddess...are all forms and manifestations of That One Love...however named...
OM Shanti Om
Shema Yisrael YHVH eloheinu YHVH ehad.
“Hear, O Israel, ‘the One that is’, our god, ‘the One that is’ is one.”
Names are names—and names are sometimes metaphors. And none of the names are exhaustive.