As You Get Up In The Morning,

Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.

Caring Can Be Learned By All Human Beings, Can Be Worked Into The Design Of Every Life, Meeting An Individual Need As Well As A Pervasive Need In Society.

There Are Few Things As Toxic As A Bad Metaphor. You Can't Think Without Metaphors.

We Do Not Need To Understand Other People And Their Customs Fully To Interact With Them And Learn In The Process; It Is Making The Effort To Interact Without Knowing All The Rules, Improvising Certain Situations, Which Allows Us To Grow.

Human Beings Tend To Regard The Conventions Of Their Own Societies As Natural, Often As Sacred.