WIY –
I am not arguing any points. I am simply stating facts. Threads like these bring out people’s true thoughts and feelings, as being online, one can create a name for his or her self and no one knows who he or she really is. I just wish that everyone would stop with the labels. And just because it may not seem that someone’s “observance level is up to snuff”, you don’t know what Hashem sees. Maybe that guy does not wear a streimel and bekesha and davens in a Young Israel style shul, but he could be the biggest baal middos, the biggest baal chesed. Maybe that woman doesnt cover her hair and is not dressed tziusdikly, but she is always doing for others, runs 3 outstanding chessed organizations and says tehillim daily. MY original point is, if we stop judging the “they” from the outside and the generalizing, WE would be in a better place. It takes baby steps for addicts to recover and return to normal life, maybe we should be taking those baby steps too!