Tolerance...

I rarely title a post before I start writing it, but this one was just bouncing around in my head. I have a friend who has that 'Tolerance' bumper sticker on her vehicle, the one spelled out of various religious icons and spiritual insignias. I know several people who have those, many of them who are Jewish. As always, I am quick to hone in on irony whenever it makes a public appearance. Jewish people, proper practicing Jews anyway, are technically supposed to be the least 'tolerant' people of all. They are God's chosen people, and history has shown that God has gone out of his way to make the Jews different, separate, exclusive, and most importantly intolerant of all nonjewishness. In the end, it mostly came down to hygiene and proper eating habits, but since those have picked up support in many different cultural circles nowadays, one has to infer a bit to realize the spiritual significance of such restrictions. They were to be kept apart. Set aside, as it were, for holier purposes.

Anyway, I have no problem with Jewish people, but I happen to know a good many of them, and the ironic thing is that they seem to be the most tolerant people I have ever come across. Tolerant to a fault, as it were. Unless you're talking Jesus. Then they pretty much stick to the party line. Anyway, brief moments in irony, captured here for none to see.