I was posting on another blog when someone asked me: “So, if someone has been driving an American car (non-Jews) for a while and then switched to a Japanese one (Jews), why should he object to an American car (non-Jews) being called junk?”

I’m not editorializing with the parenthetical statements, the preceding sentences were about why someone would decide to be Jewish. I’ve written about this before. There is this awful, prevasive mindset in the Jewish world that somehow by converting, I decided I was better than non-Jews or Jews were better than non-Jews and that’s why I decided to be Jewish. I have a hard time wrapping my head around why someone Jewish would even think like this considering the laws of Noah as they apply to non-Jews. It seems to me that this “Jews are better” mindset is the opposing mindset against the Jews who hate Judaism so much they can’t imagine why anyone would convert.

But let me set the record straight. I converted to Judaism because it was the best way to live MY life. I don’t think it’s the best way for everyone. If you’re Jewish, don’t use me as a way to confirm that your way of life is the best way. If you’re not Jewish, don’t take my choices as a personal attack on yours. I don’t think non-Jews are “junk” and anyone who would take a whole group of people and label them junk obviously didn’t learn a great deal from the Holocaust.