| ▲ | guytv an hour ago | |
We have similar e-commerce sites in Israel that close on Saturdays for religious reasons. As someone living in a relegious country with religious parties in parliament, I see this as a slippery slope. It's a way for religious groups to normalize forcing their lifestyle on the rest of society. Religious mandates always tend to expand: what starts as "I don't care if you close your site on Sunday" can quickly escalate to "Why are you telling my wife and daughter how they should dress in public?" Beware | ||
| ▲ | DonHopkins an hour ago | parent [-] | |
I find the idea of cleverly and conveniently outsmarting God with Shabbat elevators and ovens difficult to reconcile with taking one's religion seriously, respecting God, and following the spirit rather than merely the letter of its laws. But those are the harmless loopholes. The obscene version is ultra-Orthodox parties using political power to exempt their own sons from military service while authorizing summonses for everyone else's and sustaining a government accused of genocide in Gaza. What believers arrange for themselves is their own business. Exemptions for themselves and war for everyone else are not. God can presumably see through the elevator loophole. The rest of us can see through the conscription loophole. | ||