In response to a comment from one of my previous posts, from July 20th, I would like to take this opportunity to set out my thinking a little. While it might go against the grain of traditional religious thinking, and some might accuse me of following Conservative or Reform Jewish thinking, I believe that we cannot ignore what is out in the world. This might back me into a corner because some will ask, what about things like Bible criticism, which destroys our foundations of belief. My response is, the ignoring of the arguments implies we don't have answers. However, what I am mostly referring to is how do we account for multiculturalism and the latest academic rhetoric within our lives. I don't think that it is impossible. Religions have always been able to find ways of incorporating certain things. This also doesn't mean a total submission to all ideas in the world, because some things are quite far-out and not substantial.