[HairOfTheDog]

I don't think God has been consulted in the matter.

Asked aften, but perhaps not everyone feels adequately answered all the time.

This 'G-d' detail is not a belief system, but one of hopefully many rituals of life that ground us a little in our daily lives, and remind us what we believe in some small way.... All surviving cultures have their traditions... it holds them together.

"You may ask, how did this tradition get started? - I'll tell you.... I don't know!

But it is a tradition, and because of our traditions, everyone of us knows who he is, and what G-d expects him to do." ~Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof.

[William Terrell]

But it is a tradition, and because of our traditions, everyone of us knows who he is, and what G-d expects him to do." ~Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof.

I know that I am a child and servant of God, a unigue human being infinitely valuable in the eyes of God and Christ, a thinking being charged with free will with an immortal soul, a soul not because I was taught that but by distinguishing between my awareness, consciousness and mind.

No tradition tells me this, no church, no book, no religion. I came upon it through inner searches of my heart, observation of people and the vast interactive system of the world and acknowledging what makes me joyful and depressed, what gives me satisfaction and what gives me strength in times of trial. The only thing tradition tells me is that I am an American living in a culture that sprang from the history of my ancestors.

Whoever wrote "Fiddler on the Roof" is full of fresh fecal matter. Because a novel is entertaining and thoughtful does not means the philosophy therein is correct.