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Zahavasdad–The reality is today religion in general is on the decline. 30% of Americans do not belong to an organized religion. Its not just judaism, Its christianity as well. You think you know alot of OTD’ers. Look at the Catholic church. Most Catholics today are “OTD”. And this is in America. In Europe its even higher, even in catholic countries like Ireland and Italy.
So if it normal that people leave religions and/or are not religious, then why are the jewish otder’s referred to as sick, mentally ill, crazy etc. Some communities will even ostracize these individuals and fire them from their jobs, or make them give up custody and/or visitation rights of their children… If the otder’s are doing nothing wrong by not being religious (since its the norm in america and in other countries) and they are not mentally ill then why are they treated this way?
The little I know–There’s a problem with pursuing this. If you ask anyone who is in chinuch or connected to it, the answer is “Blame the dysfunctional families.” If you ask those parents who are not connected to chinuch, they blame the yeshivos and schools.
Why dont we ask the people who are off the derech and see what they say?