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"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu" I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up
by redsummer 9y ago
"Roberts isn't ... trying to speak publicly as a Hindu"
I'm not sure this sounds like a reasonable standard to join any religion. "If you're a convert, shut up". Sounds like second class status. This stuff is too complicated for me.
- geofft 9y agoI'm not saying it should be a standard, and in fact I would argue that it's a completely unreasonable standard. I mentioned, positively, converts to Eastern Orthodoxy who join the clergy. (One of the best known modern writers about Eastern Orthodoxy is Kallistos Ware, a metropolitan bishop, who converted from Anglicanism at age 24. Nobody would call him second-class!) I'm just saying that it happens to be true for Roberts, and that this differentiates her case from Dolezal's.
- redsummer 9y agoIn plenty of cases, the outsider or convert better understands the religion than the native believer. I saw a documentary about Mount Athos, and all the young Greek monks were admitting that being a monk was just a way to get out of the everyday grind. I'm sure the non-Greeks had greater sense of purpose because they had to go further (not just geographically, but spiritually)