I was, briefly, quite pleased when I saw that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach had written a blog post in the Jewish Journal called, ““>this blog post in which the author writes he is an atheist because of his bad experience with Christianity.
When people believe that their choice is between Christianity or nothing, or any other religion or nothing, we Jews are failing them. Just as Christianity doesn’t work for everyone, Judaism doesn’t work for everyone, but I know from experience it does work for at least some people who reject Christianity.
Therefore, we ought to seek converts because there are people in the world who want to have a relationship with God but who aren’t finding it in the dominant religion of their family and/or country. We ought to seek converts because we have a deep, rich heritage we would like to share with the world.
We ought to seek converts because Judaism can make the lives of so many people so much better. We ought to want to share our community with others who can benefit from it. We ought to recognize the deep, meaningful rituals and customs we have, and we ought to want as many people as possible to benefit from them.
That is why we ought to seek converts.
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