re: #225 Anymouse 🌹

I haven’t met many Jews in person outside the military, but I don’t recall any of them coming to my house on Friday before Shabbat pounding on my door asking me to convert, or threatening me with eternal hell if I don’t (regardless of how “hell” is defined).

Not only do we not recruit, we make conversion really difficult even for people who of their own free will want it more than anything.

There’s years of study, then you have to pass examination by a panel of rabbis (almost like a thesis defense), then there’s a bunch of rituals, and for men there’s painful physical procedures. Maybe you need surgery, or if you were already circumcised for non-religious reasons they’ll do a symbolic “circumcision” that requires sticking pins in your dick until you bleed.

Would-be converts have to prove they really, really mean it.

People who want to fake-convert to Christianity find it simple — say the magic words, they sprinkle water on your forehead, and it’s done.