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Full quote from Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles, 1924:
One of the best illustrations where with to contrast your adaptability to discipline and our lack of it is to be found in the difference between your behavior in church and our behavior in our own unmodernized synagogue — ■ the orthodox synagogue.
In church all is order and decorum, rhythm and regime. In the synagogue all is chaos. In the church leaders and responses are carefully prepared, carefully followed and observed. It is clean and neat, charming and exact. You behave well. You do as you are told — in mass. You create esprit de corps in the church: there is a suggestive, hypnotizing decency in the trained correctness of your service. In the synagogue all is disorder; we talk during service; we answer out of turn; and. when we answer in it is Babel itself; people walk in and out; some take longer than others to get through a certain prayer — and the ones who read more rapidly chat in the interval; part of the congregation is standing, part sitting; some wear prayer shawls, others do not: and the prayer shawls are not all alike; sometimes there is so much babbling that the voice of the cantor or leader cannot be heard. One of you at our services would be amazed: our own young generation, which has picked up your ways, is disgusted: and the last couple of generations has seen Reform synagogues conducted on your models.
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[–] PalmSprings21 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Must be he was never at a pentecostal "church."
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