Polite Rant: Your Attempt to Syncretize Me
Lawrence Lerner • October 15, 2022

My faith Not Yours.

<Polite rant>

If you find comfort in the similarities between my faith and yours, I am happy for you. However, my concern is not the relevancy of each of our faiths in our lives and those of our respective religions. Live your life, and do no harm.


Too often, I am confronted [literal meaning] with Abrahamics who insist and even sometimes demand that we have commonality. There seems to be a deep-seated, even monomaniacal, need for syncretization.


Please stop. This is the worst form of privilege. "Your religion is just like mine; I can be comfortable/not threatened/not overwhelmed/not able to critique," and so on. Our beliefs and moral and ethical codes we conduct ourselves can and will be different. You do not, and I do not need to make you comfortable with my faith.


A few years ago, I had a disagreement with a well-known figure in the interfaith community. This person was promoting a Christian-based choir of singers in our interfaith group. His rationale for allowing their Christian-themed music was that they are really well known, have many awards, and would be well accepted by our Christian donors. However, music and performers from other faiths were not welcome. I left the organization shortly after that.


I enjoy interfaith dialog when it is collegial. In fact, I actively seek it out here in Washington state and online. Together we all do more. However, I will avoid you when it is a thinly veiled attempt to rationalize our systems.


If you are a devotee of The Queen of all the witches, The Phantom Queen, The Queen of Heaven and Earth, or my Patron, then I say welcome. However, if you are not familiar with these names, crack a history book.

</Polite rant>


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